Modern research indicates that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard said bateman who handwrites 125 ornate letters each year. All of the names of its creators are also handwritten. Q A Is It Bad If Children Don T Learn Handwriting Colorado Cursive handwriting will no longer be taught in schools because it s a big old waste of time. Cursive writing not taught anymore . Some states such as tennessee and california have. Let s not forget that handwriting is not included in the failing common core standards either. It s seeing the writing on the wall said patricia granada principal at eagle view elementary in fairfax county. One of the things we heard from teachers around the country in some cases obviously not all was that sometimes cursive writing takes an enormous amount of instructional time she said. So they re opting not to teach it anymore. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the common core state...