INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — One lawmaker is continuing her cursive writing crusade, hoping the Legislature will finally sign off this year on mandating that schools teach it.
The measure has passed the Senate many times, as it did Monday in a 35-14 vote. It consistently dies in the House, where the education chairman believes the decision is best left to local officials.
The bill’s author, Republican Sen. Jean Leising of Oldenburg, suggests learning cursive will help students read old documents and retain information. She asks if it’s a local issue if there are state students who “can’t write.”
State school officials decided to make cursive lessons optional in 2011. Leising has proposed her legislation each year since.
Opponents of the bill say a mandate would be micromanagement, while supporters say cursive writing is important.
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Who are these people that don’t believe “cursive writing” is important? Our computers can read aloud now so are we going to stop teaching children how to read? I think some of these people are lacking in the ability to apply common sense to this and many other issues that go across their desks. How about a new law that people with no common sense don’t get to speak allowed! I would vote for that.