POLL RESULTS: Let's continue to teach cursive
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[We asked, "With school under way, do you think the students should learn cursive, or has the digital age made penmanship obsolete?"
You responded
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75 percent, "I think kids should learn cursive because it helps them develop fine motor skills, and it's just a part of our history."</li>
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10 percent, "While I think cursive is fine for nostalgia reasons, I wonder if class time would be better spent teaching them how to type."</li>
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15 percent, "What's the point of learning cursive? Kids should learn how to print neatly, but why have two different yet similar ways of writing? Ditch cursive!"</li>
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