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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Your previous post did not seem to take a middle ground.
I happen to agree with you that cursive script is not important. Unfortunately, my brother wasn't even taught to print legibly. His school went one step further than you advocate; they abandoned penmanship entirely. Given that many people say insist on "getting her on a keyboard as soon as possible", do you really think schools will take a middle ground or do you think they will follow my brother's school and abandon penmanship entirely?
Penmanship is more important than computer skills at that age because legible handwriting takes so much time to learn. Use of a computer is much easier. The one part that is time intensive is typing, and that can be learned at home with a piece of software.
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Sorry I wasn't clear to begin with. I consider printing more basic and connect it closer to drafting than to penmanship. I guess because the term penmanship wasn't used in my school until we got to cursive. Perhaps we weren't expected to have that much vocabulary yet?
Anyway, I do expect printing to be taught.