Because cursive required a level of fine-motor skills not typically accessible before third grade, printing was embraced as a way to get younger children to express themselves through writing.

Writing in cursive remains a large part of our culture, Superintendent Graham said. “We need to be careful about losing that, because so much of the basics is driven by technology,” she said.

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Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive handwriting.

Chapman frequently requires her students to write in cursive. They also need to know how to read her cursive writing on a whiteboard to understand their daily homework assignment.

The writing has been on the wall, as they say, for the last decade: School districts are not spending as much classroom time teaching cursive penmanship.