attended back to school for the 5-year-old - met teacher, learned about curriculum, saw other parents

teacher explained how major academic goal is to get basics for reading & writing in place before stating a big focus will be cursive writing to which i unwisely chuckled

never in my adult life have i gotten such a glare from another adult 😭

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I'm in favor of teaching cursive. There's a lot of research that shows that taking written notes reinforces concepts better than typing, and cursive is far faster to write than print. My sons' school still teaches cursive and that was definitely a selling point! They also teach typing at the same age

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honestly, i don't disagree with you and do think it was not polite of me to chuckle as everything theoretically should /does have it's place

i guess it just struck me as odd how cursive is emphasized as this super important part of the school year when you don't end up practically using it at all (again which is ok)