When did school classrooms stop teaching our children the art of cursive writing? Perhaps in the early 2000s, when computers and technology began to take over? Or when the laptop boom saw touch typing to be more efficient compared to writing with a traditional pen and paper? And what if technology fails us one day and we cannot use our laptops? Would we still have the skills to communicate using handwritten notes? For one state in the United States, this won’t be a problem.
Beginning from the 2019–2020 school year, cursive writing will be mandatory for Texas elementary students after the State Board of Education modified the “English Language Arts and Reading” section of Texas Education Code, known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), in 2017.
