Did you learn cursive in school?

Education Minister Stephen Lecce said it is about more than just teaching students how to sign their own name. "The research has been very clear that cursive writing is a critical life skill in helping young people to express more substantively, to think more critically, and ultimately, to express more authentically," he said in an interview. Do you agree that cursive writing is a critical life skill?

The curriculum reintroduces cursive writing as an expectation starting in Grade 3. That's welcome news for language education experts. "I think it is long overdue," said Shelley Stagg Peterson, a curriculum, teaching and learning professor at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Do you think cursive should be part of the curriculum?