[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Some schools are teaching a hybrid. It looks like the printed alphabet but the letters are connected. It is really an ugly lettering.

I call it dumbed-down cursive, because that is what it looks like.

And the reason they are not teaching cursive is that so many elementary schools have computers now (Apples) that kids spend so much time on a keyboard/touch screen that they don’t have time to practice penmanship.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember the new typewriter the typing class teacher got back in 1963 that printed in cursive. Everyone really liked it.

I remember in school I thought I would never learn cursive when it was first taught. Within a year that is all I wrote in. I just seemed to pick it up easily.

[wita]

And the reason they are not teaching cursive is that so many elementary schools have computers now (Apples) that kids spend so much time on a keyboard/touch screen that they don’t have time to practice penmanship.

Get computers out of the elementary schools and you will have time for cursive unless you have too much common core.

Oh, I almost forgot, the common core assessments are on the computer. Silly me.