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Cursive and Contractions

This is very interesting. I am a mother of a fourth grader and I was 'googling' for the rules about cursive and contractions when I stumbled upon your conversation. To be quite honest, I'm desperate enough to just ask my question on this site since I could not find the answer anywhere else. Does anyone know the rule about contractions when writing in cursive? My daughter had contractions for her spelling words last week and since they are required to write in cursive I told her not to place a space between the letters when writing in cursive. The apostrophe replaces the space so to speak. Well she got an 'F' and the teacher states that there should be a space and therefore my daughter failed. Does anyone know the rule for this? And if possible, where I can find documentation to verify it? I would appreciate any help I could get.
~Upset in Arizona~

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