[dixie]

Originally Posted by Kobi

There was a story on the news last night that teaching cursive writing in schools has now become optional and keyboarding is now mandatory. I dont know if it was a local thing or a national thing.

Seems weird to me. Bad enough kids today cant spell, or construct sentences to say what they mean, or conjugate verbs properly. Now we wont teach them how to write? And this helps them compete in a world economy how?

I thought the same thing. My son is 13. Pretty much the only cursive writing he has learned has been from me. His schools did not teach him one single aspect of it. The majority of all classwork though is done on computers. It does seem weird.