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.

RASCOE: Ms. Brooks has a cursive alphabet up on the wall and says her students are excited to learn it. And the most frequent question she gets at the beginning of each school year is this.

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Steve Graham, professor of education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., fears that elementary students are spending less time on writing in general, whether it is manuscript or cursive.

For the record, cursive is a style of penmanship in which letters are joined in a flowing style, as opposed to block printing. Many schools still teach cursive, though not as widely as before.

Hence letters of the alphabet have to be joined, resulting in cursive writing. In America, cursive hand at elementary grade schools has become obsolete.

RASCOE: Erica Ingber is the principal of Longfellow Elementary in Pasadena. She says as a kid, she struggled with cursive because she didn't see the point of it.