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Originally Posted by jessica31876
I had my conference with my youngest sons teacher last night and while we were talking I asked if she was going to be teaching him cursive writing and she told me she is but that it is not a requirement in school anymore. I never knew that...honestly I remember hours upon hours of learning cursive writing. Now they normally do not teach it at all? Is this true in other states? Her reasoning was that they spend so much time on standardized test preparation they do not have time to spend on things like teaching children to learn cursive handwriting. (one more reason I hate standardized testing) She gave me a good website to help my son learn and I have to order a book from the site before we can start.
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I think our school teaches at 3rd grade...what grade is your child? Our school was INSISTENT by 5th grade they are writing completely in cursive.
Yes the school spends wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much time on TEACHING the State tests and doing nothing else for more than a quarter...that the kids only get grades in the subjects they are studying for the State tests!!! Art, Science, and a few other subjects have no grades on one of the report cards for a quarter because of these State tests.