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Philly Kids May Soon Be Forced to Learn Cursive
I live in West Philadelphia, and my kids, who are 17 and 19, have some beautiful cursive handwriting, a skill they picked up, along with Latin and the ability to sit up straight at a desk for 60 minutes without talking or flinching, at the Catholic school we sent them to in their earlier years. Their friends who grew up in Philadelphia public schools? Most of them can’t read cursive (something we learned the first time our kids gave them handmade, handwritten birthday cards) let alone write it, because Philadelphia schools stopped teaching cursive years ago. That may soon change.
A bill that would mandate cursive throughout the entire state is winding its way through Harrisburg, sponsored by Republican state representative Dane Watro of Luzerne and Schuylkill counties. The Pennsylvania House passed the bill last week, so now it heads off to the Pennsylvania Senate…