In the article, “Why We Shouldn’t Write Off Cursive” by Bobby George and June George, talks about cursive. The authors argue how cursive should be taught in school and should be considered more valuable. Right now, 45 states has omitted cursive from the required school curricula. I remember when I studied in a private school at India, we had to learn cursive. It was not an optional, it was a must and we were pretty much was graded on how neat/good you write it. Personally, I think cursive is very neat, elegant, and rich looking and I believe it helps you get a good handwriting too.
In “How to Tell When a Robot Has Written You a Letter,” by Clive Thompson, talks about a cool machine which is currently famous. A robot that writes almost like
I think, cursive should stay in school. Kids need it to sigh things for work or checks and even to buy things! Cursive was used way back in the day, which was all that was used. Handwriting is 50% of writing skills. Though it takes time from more relevant things it would help them out in further life. It’s hard to learn, most people forget it during their life people use it all over the world and if we were to stop teaching it kids and teens would not be able to read older people handwriting. In my opinion, cursive should still be taught in schools today. Most people don’t like it, I think cursive looks every good when done right.
Through the years, many people have stated that cursive should not be taught in schools. Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive. Cursive writing definitely has a place in our digital society.
As pointed out by Penny Joy a curriculum coordinator of Plymouth Canton Community Schools, she quotes that “ normally she receives a lot more calls daily with parents asking her why her school continues to teach cursive than calls requiring that more time be devoted to teaching cursive writing”. She continues to say that “she sees no reason to continue teaching cursive in her school since they don’t have time for it”. They would rather allocate that time and resources to other industrious subjects and projects.
Some people believe that it that cursive is a waste of time and should not be taught. Not all people think that cursive is not used and does not need to be used, but some do. Technology is taking the place of cursive handwriting, with typing. Typing is very easy and legible. Some people assume that e-mailing and text is easier than cursive writing. Most people that mix cursive and regular hand writing tend to write faster. Cursive is not used very much and people may be losing a link from their past.
Did you know cursive takes away core subjects like Math and Reading? Well, it does and that’s bad because that means you could make you less smart. In my opinion, cursive writing should not be taught today. First, it takes too much time. Second, it’s frustrating for parents. Lastly, you can gain a life skill because cursive might be easy for you when you grow up.
Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you didn't have cursive, at ALL? Cursive should still be taught in school. Cursive can help you with your reading and writing skills. In fact, it can also help you read cursive. Mainly, if you can't write in cursive, you can't fill out documents and bills when you get older. I hope after you read my paper you will want to keep cursive too!
Cursive writing hasn’t been taught in schools for a while and will result in increased difficulties for students now and in the future. There are many things that involve cursive writing such as writing signatures or reading old documents. I think cursive writing should be taught because cursive inspires creativity, can be used as a tool, and develops motor skills for our brains. In my opinion, because cursive has many benefits, this form of writing should be taught in schools today.
First of all, yes cursive should be taught in all 50 states, because it’s a skill you need to have as an adult. Without knowing cursive you wouldn’t be able to sign your name or read the constitution. For instance, in the last 10 years there has been an argument against the cursive letter disappearing. Many people blame the “Common Core” which finalized in 2010. Cursive is a standard writing skill that has been taught for many years.
In conclusion I believe that we don’t need cursive in schools. First of all kids are more impressed with technology to spend the time and neatness on cursive. The 20th century skill is not needed in these 21st century skilled classroom, but in these classrooms we just need normal handwriting also if u want your kids to learn cursive u spend your time on it teachers have to teach them normal handwriting enough. Therefore I think that we should not teach cursive in schools and I want you to wright your best without
The article’s, “Is It Time for Cursive to Die?”, written by Lauren Tarshis, and “Why I Keep My Letters”, written by Nina Sankovitch, both agree with different sides when it comes to us humans keeping cursive or not. Despite both articles giving good evidence to support their claim, I have come to the conclusion that the form of writing cursive should be preserved, not forgotten. One reason they cursive should not be forgotten is because of the history that comes from it. For instance, the article states, “Thomas Jefferson penned one of our country’s most famous documents, the Declaration of Independence, in glorious cursive” (Tarshis 19). This piece of evidence shows how some of the most important events in history used cursive, showing how
In the article, Forget cursive: Teach kids how to code, Keith Wagstaff describes how they believe that schools should discard the idea of reimplanting cursive into regular standards, and start teaching children how to code. In my personal opinion, I cannot pick a side. I both agree and disagree with the subject. Writing is in almost every career, however, most of the writing formats are technology. Cursive also makes writing faster, again, however, the variety of writing based jobs are on technology. Another thing is kids interests. Although a wealthy job, not every kid is going to want to code. A topic I agree upon is the insert, “The architects of the standards certainly weighed the inclusion of cursive and believed there was no need to include
Should cursive be put back in school? I agree with the passage "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool". Cursive writting is essential,though not for the reasons people might guess. Cursive writting has been proven to be good for our minds. A couple of reasons why i agree that cursive writting is good for the brain are writing by hand helps people to remember ideas better than typing. Also, medical brain scans show that writing in cursive helps with motor-skills development and stimulates both the right and left part of the brain.
In both of these articles the authors discuss and give reason on why cursive writing should be taught in schools, and why cursive writing is obsolete. The author of "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool" believes that cursive is essential for making our brains more stronger and functional. The ways cursive helps, is that by writing things down by hand it helps us process material better and medical brain scans show that it also helps with "fine motor-skill development and stimulates both the right and left parts of the brain". People with brain injuries might lose the ability to read in write, but in some case were still able to read and write in cursive. The author of "Cursive Is a Twenty-First Century Dinosaur", believes that cursive being removed from the classrom isn't a big deal. Saying that a survey back in 2012 at a conference was given to a group of handwriting teacher by a lead researcher. Only 37% of the handwriting teachers wrote in cursive. "If handwriting teachers don't value cursive, then why should anyone"? He/she goes on by saying that cursive is virtually gone, with technology being the
Scientific studies show that writing in cursive “promotes hand-eye coordination, visual, fine motor and memory skills” (Cooper). People do not want cursive in school because paper and pencil cursive writing is done in school only and is useless outside of school. On the other hand, people believe cursive writing should be in school because it allows children to read historical documents like the Declaration of Independence. Cursive writing should be taught in school.
Think of when our first president signed the declaration of independence, or when Christopher Columbus documented his adventures in cursive so why don’t they teach it in school. Well, in my opinion, I believe that Cursive should be taught today because students can print better when they learn cursive, it is also more efficient than print, and also writing in cursive was one of the most valuable skills taught in school. But it’s not required by law so why do it?