The purpose of thisresearch was to determine the views of parents and teachers on the legibility ofthe handwritings of elementary school students. The research, in which thedescriptive survey model was used, was conducted between the months of Octoberand January in the fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year in elementaryschools in the central Kırıkkale province. The study group consisted of 117 elementaryschool classroom teachers and 139 parents.As data collection tools, (1) The Parent Questionnaire on the Legibilityof Elementary School Students’ Handwritings and (2) The Teacher Questionnaireon the Legibility of Elementary School Students’ Handwritings, which wereprepared by the researchers, were used. Descriptive analysis and contentanalysis techniques were used for data analysis. The results showed that halfof the teachers considered the handwritings of their students legible. Amongthe reasons for the teachers’ considering elementary school students’ handwritings illegible were that thestudents did not like to write, that they behaved carelessly, hastily andsloppily when they wrote, that cursive handwriting was not appropriate to thedevelopmental level of elementary school students, that the writing educationin the first grade was inadequate, and that the students held their pencilsincorrectly in their hands as they wrote. Approximately 62% of the parents whoparticipated in the survey thought that their children were successful inwriting legibly while 37% thought that their children had to improve thelegibility of their handwritings. 62% of the parents reported that they were tryingto help their children’s handwriting practices at home while 38% reported thatthey did not provide support to their children for their handwriting practices.