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| | Cursive Only Grandma's Writing?, A Look At Kids' Penmanship - CBS News |
 | | Kwasi is not only “a man of letters.” The little boy from Mother Jones Elementary school in Maryland is pretty attached to the ones in the alphabet that spell his name. |
 | | As a result, he says, there are no longer written requirements about whether to include cursive in curriculums, so many schools have severely shortened lessons, or worse, ”the teacher just says: I don't have time to teach handwriting anymore,” he says. |
 | | One of the problems with teaching cursive today is that it tends to get squeezed out by other curriculum priorities, like preparing for standardized tests. |
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