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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Learning cursive is important if for no other reason than to have access to the extant texts written in cursive --- Turkey is an example of a similar problem, having changed from from writing in Arabic to Latin, people now find it necessary to hire a specialist to transcribe old family letters and records --- granted it won't be quite so difficult, but it would be tragic if the next generation can't readily read the letters of their antecedents.
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Reading cursive and reading print are not that far off. Times have changed. Children have 6-7 hrs a day to learn things needed to succeed in today's world. Children born today, need to learn things that we didn't need to learn when we were in primary school. You can't keep adding subjects and expect them to master everything. Something needs to give. Learning math is important; keep that. Learning English is important; keep that. Learning social studies is important; keep that. Learning keyboarding AND computer skills; start that. Learning cursive; not relevant in this emergent world, replace home ec. with cursive as an elective.