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By anonforthis

I am a regular member of PT, but I signed out for this because my district is one of few that uses a program that introduces cursive in kindergarten.

That's right, our student's are taught kindergarten. According
to the program, in 4th grade we should be introducing manuscript. Ha. We are under the same pressure to make the kids write cursive as other districts who do not use this program.

The only difference is any student who enters our district before they are taught cursive at their old school (3rd or 4th grade usually) haven't learned cursive. We aren't given time to teach cursive.

I guess these kids are just supposed to learn it by osmosis.

Thus we spend a great deal of our day banging our head against the ARL brick wall and expecting different results.

I'd be curious how many other school nationwide actually use the program.