Cursive Should Be Taught In Classrooms

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!

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 On the other hand, people believe cursive writing should be in school because it allows children to read historical documents like the Declaration of Independence.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.

Some people determine that cursive is a fun way to write letters instead of just plain regular handwriting. Cursive are words that the letters in those words that are connected. There are various interesting facts about cursive handwriting. What some famous documents are written, should it be taught in schools or not?

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 Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive.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 many know and believe cursive writing evolved from the calligraphic hand! Cursive has gone back many generations. Cursive is believed to be the fastest way to write. It also is needed in many different ways, such as writing essays and signing your signature on contracts. Not only is the constitution in cursive, but many things are in cursive, but if you don’t know how to write or read cursive you might be a little confused. All schools should teach cursive it’s a really important skill in life.

In the 20th century, teaching cursive writing was way more important than it is now less and less kids can’t read letters from their grandparents or other family members but everyone is on their phones and computers to wright these days people video chat all the time and that’s why in my opinion we don’t need cursive.

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.

About 75% of second and third grade teachers teach their class cursive. Kids should learn cursive because they can be prepared for seeing more cursive when they grow older. But a lot of kids don’t learn cursive and they don’t understand it when they see cursive. They might just see weird scribbles. Kids should learn cursive in school they might need it one day. You never know, you could get a job that requires you to know cursive.

Whether or not cursive should be taught in schools has been an issue in todays society. Cursive writing should be taught in schools. Writing in cursive not only teaches you another way to write, it helps the brain and it allows students to memorize things better. It is a fact that cursive handwriting is better for our health.

In 3rd grade summer school the first thing they showed us was cursive. Did you even know that hand writing is 50% of literacy? Or that it helps us write faster? Which is helpful for when we go to college. If we don’t learn cursive how on earth are we supposed to sign are name? Honestly in my opinion cursive should be taught today. It should be used in everyday life.

I believe that cursive writing should not be forced on kids. Cursive is a hard thing for kids to learn right after learning to write in general. In my adult life I have not come across cursove very often at all, mainly because it is hard to read for some people to read, and even wright.

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.

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.

There has been an issue all around the United States for the past twenty years. Should cursive writing be taught in schools? Schools may think that computer literacy is a better topic for kids to learn, but writing fluently should take place of that class. We all need to start considering cursive handwriting as a class topic instead of computer courses.

What would the world be like if cursive wasn’t taught anymore, what would people do how would the law like writing checks be written? Cursive should be taught to kids because they need to know cursive when they are older like, How are they going to write out a check to someone? How are they going to get a house? That's mainly why they need to learn cursive.