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Board asks staff to review district cursive instruction amid concerns about reading historical documents
Summary
Board member Mister Wright raised concerns that many students cannot read cursive and asked the administration to gather information from buildings on cursive instruction. Staff said cursive is taught in second and third grades in some buildings and agreed to report back to a future meeting.
Board member Mister Wright asked the Mifflin County School District Board of Directors to review the district’s approach to teaching cursive handwriting, saying many historical and archival documents are written in cursive and that some students struggle to read it.
Mister Wright said he had seen “a huge deficit in the number of students that are actually taught cursive,” and that the district’s upcoming 250th celebration and preservation of historical records were reasons to review…
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