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Philly’s Cursive Writing Problem and Why it’s Worse Than You Think
A student unable read his name in cursive and another student unable to author his signature represents a large problem in Philadelphia often ignored.

By Christopher “Flood the Drummer®” Norris    
     
6.2.15: Philadelphia – (Politics): Nearly a dozen young Philadelphia students at City Hall last week, mostly male, lined up in front of the Philadelphia Police Commissioner to get his autograph after he finished listening and responding to a handful of young people’s concerns and inquiries related to police brutality and improving community relations.

One student, after getting the back of his sign autographed, looked at me and said “What does it say?” The Commissioner’s message, as it was to all the students, was their name; “Best Wishes”; and his signature. I pointed to the kid’s name on the paper and asked him: “Do you know what this says?”

“No,” he replied.

“It’s your name,” I said.

The student then smiled and ran off to join his peers, but I was stuck in a daze. I couldn’t process that a student, who was at least in the 3rd grade, couldn’t read his own name in cursive.
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