Shawn M. Datchuk

3 weeks ago | civilbeat.org | Shawn M. Datchuk |Nathan Eagle

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.”Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either.