Pretty soon as soon as you learn your ABCs and can count to 100 you'll be awarded a PhD.
Cursive handwriting, once a standard part of the three R's in elementary school, is no longer required to be taught in North Carolina.
The death of cursive instruction is linked to the national common core standards that North Carolina and 44 other states have adopted to standardize educational goals nationwide. The state leaves the decision on whether to teach cursive up to local school systems.
"We spend a lot more time in the computer lab, so they're learning (Microsoft) Word and word-processing as opposed to cursive handwriting," Lynn Dingwell, a third-grade teacher at Ed Baldwin Elementary School in Hope Mills, said Monday.
The only cursive to be found in Dingwell's classroom was on a how-to poster, with each stroke numbered as if teaching a dance.
"I think it's a lost art," she said, adding that most of her students can write their first and last names in cursive.
Student Xenia Glasco said her grandmother is teaching her cursive.
“The way my grandma does it, it’s kind of hard to write, but I like the way she writes it," Xenia said.
Michael Smith, a communications professor at Campbell University, said there's more to cursive than elegance, and he fears that students' cognitive skills will be less developed without it.
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They are trying their best to do that here in California as well. It's just one more step in the dumbing down of Americans. It' also insulting to the intelligence of modern kids, as there is nothing worse than assuming from the start that they can't learn cursive, or anything else.
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