Roosevelt High School teacher gives her students a review in cursive
Today's students may still learn cursive writing, but so rarely use it they forget how. One Roosevelt High teacher in Seattle decided to try to remedy that by giving her students a short cursive refresher class.
Seattle Times education reporter
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JoAnne Jugum, a retired third-grade teacher at Wedgwood Elementary School, was recruited to teach cursive writing at Roosevelt High School.
Just like in third grade, a dozen high-school juniors and seniors slant their papers to the right, with one corner pointed toward their stomachs. They pick up their pens or pencils and follow along as a guest instructor leads them through the loops and slants and curves of cursive writing.
Sure, they learned cursive when they were in elementary school, but they use it so rarely that they've forgotten a lot of it.
Even for these students — high achievers taking advanced-placement Latin at Seattle's Roosevelt High School — cursive is quaint.
"I never write in cursive," said Annika Kounts, wh
