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Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country are moving to reintroduce it intotheir elementary-school curriculums.
Although Texas, the latest state to embrace cursive writing, first updatedits state Education Codewith the changes in 2017, they’re set to take place at the start of the 2019-2020 school year in September, according toWCNC.
Fourth-graders will beexpected to “write legibly incursive to complete assignments,” and cursive will also be a requirement for fifth-graders.
A spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency toldCNNthat although cursive has been a part of the education standards in the state for years, the changes will put an “added emphasis” on it.
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The changes reflect new science which shows a positive correlation between handwriting and memory, according toHouston Public Media.
Although there is disagreement about how useful being able to write in cursive is in 2019, many have spoken out in support of the changes.
“I’m from the old school, but with government documents and contracts and things like that, you need your cursive signature,” Nay Roach, a fourth-grade teacher at Sam Houston Elementary School, toldKSLA.
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“Everybody writes cursive differently from others and that’s how they detect problems,” Mark Brassfield shared in an interview with KSLA.
Since 2016, a total of 18 states in the U.S. have moved to re-embrace cursive, with 14 of those states being located in the South,according to CNN.
source: people.com
