Fairfax Co. middle school's Cursive Club offers chance to learn lost art

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Fairfax Co. middle school’s Cursive Club offers chance to learn lost art

Scott Gelman | [e-mail]
November 6, 2025, 7:26 PM

Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive.

Then, she had the group of students that were eagerly watching her try to write it on their own, either on a lined worksheet or dry erase board.

She reminded them of some of the rules of writing in cursive, such as not lifting the pencil off the page until finishing writing a word, and recapped which way to tilt the paper based on which hand is writing.

“A lot of students don’t know how to do it,” Kenerson told WTOP.

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[Ocelot II]

1. What a concept! As an old person who learned cursive in elementary school

and finds it as automatic and easy and normal as walking, the idea that people are growing up without learning it is... strange and surprising. But they're really good with their phones and thumbs, which I am not.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It's not a lost art, but it is astonishing how many people can't even * read * cursive. . . nt

[49jim]

3. I taught early childhood at the local community college

part time 2004-2016 in upstate NY. I would write comments on students papers….several came to me and told me they couldn’t read it.
(I taught cursive writing in my third grade class 1971-1976).