(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – In this April 9, 2020, file photo, Sunnyside Elementary School fourth-grader Miriam Amacker does school work in her room at her family’s home in San Francisco. Teachers across the country report their attempts at distance learning induced by the pandemic are failing to reach large numbers of students. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Luzerne County, PA) A Pennsylvania State Representative is proposing legislation to make Pennsylvania another state to have its private and public elementary schools teach handwriting in cursive. On January 8th, State Representative Dane Watro started legislation which would bring cursive as another part of the Pennsylvania Public Schools Code for “subjects of instruction.” Public schools in twenty-three states teach cursive, which include Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia.