Vigo Co: We'll always teach cursive

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Last fall, the Common Core of Standards required students to learn handwriting and keyboarding, but not cursive specifically.

Indiana legislators are trying to change that. They recently crafted a bill that would require cursive to be taught.

However, local school officials say that cursive writing was never in jeopardy in Vigo County.

"In Vigo County, we do have an adoption for language art series and we do have cursive writing at the third grade level and so we have handwriting books," Christi Fenton from the Vigo County School Corporation said.