Whenever I ask my daughter to sign something, she answers honestly: She doesn’t know how to write in cursive. She fakes it, connecting the letters of her name in a primitive way. I haven&#821… ...

The handwriting is not on the walls of Midway Hills Academy. It’s on plain old-fashioned ruled notebook paper. And that ...

Younger was stunned. "You can't read cursive and you're in sixth grade and go to middle school?" she asked. "When you buy a house or a car you have to sign your name." "Old stories, or old recipes ...

Whittaker said that although schools today may not have cursive writing as part of their curricula, she feels it is important for parents to teach their children to sign their names in cursive.

They say it’s important for kids to learn cursive because they should know how to sign their name so it can be used when they go to vote.

Learning how to write cursive isn’t just useful for its own sake — as valuable as it is to be able to sign one’s own name.

In this photo illustration, Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Hempfield, demonstrates how she teaches cursive writing in her classroom, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

News On 6 spoke to several parents who are in favor of their children learning cursive, mainly so they can learn how to sign their names and read historical documents.

“This is such an opportunity to have an individual statement, how we sign our name.” Cursive writing is taught in the Central school district.

“In some cases, children are entering middle school without knowing how to sign their own name in cursive,” McKnight (D-Hudson) said in a statement.

A New Jersey lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring elementary schools in the state to teach students how to read and write in cursive by the end of third grade.