SACRAMENTO – California elementary schools are now required to teach cursive in the classroom.
It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton Unified School District continued teaching it.
“It is too curly and you sway it,” said 7th grader Dovie Silva.
Silva remembers learning cursive in third grade.
“I just never thought I’d need to know to learn cursive,” Silva said.
The science shows that even in the age when so many are glued to their phones, there is still a purpose behind taking a pencil to paper.
“If you want your child to have their optimum ability to learn, remember and synthesize information, you will want them to focus on handwriting and cursive,” said Superintendent of Stockton Unified School District, Dr. Michelle Rodriguez.
Dr. Rodriguez said cursive is more than communicating your thoughts through writing.
“Using paper and pen allows there to be more hooks for the memories and for the learning to hook onto,” Dr. Rodriguez said.