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Cursive should be taught in school. In third grade my teacher taught us a little bit of cursive. Every day we had a different letter to learn. We went through the whole alphabet, one letter at a time. Unfortunately, we only practiced it for about a month then we never used it again. How were we suppose to remember it if we didn’t keep using it? Cursive letters came in the mail from time to time, especially around holidays. I could some what read them, but not fluently. I told myself I need to learn how to write and read cursive all over again. I bought a book that had tracing letters to help me. I only did a couple pages at a time, and kept going over them until they stuck in my head. I didn’t want

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