[EggsAckley]

With typing now the norm rather than the exception, print handwriting
will be forever dominant over script.

This is Bull. Another lazy Gen-Xer, methinks. I was actually waiting
for the author to say, stop teaching spelling, we have spell check.

[mykdsmom]

I was thinking along the same line as you. Also why should they teach math anymore?

After all everyone has a calculator.

Give me a break.....what a moron.

MKM

[OldFriend]

Well, fits right in with the movement to eliminate all testing. Why not just send the kids out to play! FORGET SCHOOL.

[RikaStrom]

This is Bull. Another lazy Gen-Xer, methinks. I was actually waiting for the author to say, stop teaching spelling, we have spell check.

Agreed.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

I agree. I've never once given any thought to whether or not to teach cursive or not! I didn't think there was an option. Everyone I know writes in cursive, except my husband who writes like the architect in block letters. My mother's cursive was mind boggling and once during WWII (during meat rationing) she sent me ((9yrs old) to the A&P (grocery store for you youngsters), with a list upon which was written "21 lbs of plig". After consultations with the clerks, butcher and other customers I returned home without the Plig to be told plig was an abbreviation for 2 spools of white thread. Unfortunately our cursive hand writing is very similar, my poor husband suffers.