Cursive Technology

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

Cursive, having been around since the 15th century, has captured our history yet is slowly dissipating throughout time. Katie Zezima, author of The Case for Cursive, explained this by explaining the statistic that less than 15% of SAT takers who wrote the essay

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.

The article’s, “Is It Time for Cursive to Die?”, written by Lauren Tarshis, and “Why I Keep My Letters”, written by Nina Sankovitch, they both talk about how cursive is starting to be forgotten. In my opinion, there are other things similar to cursive in the way that they would be missed if forgotten. For instance, painting. Painting is an art, history, and so much more. Painting had begun when the caveman first painted on the wall, over 100’s of years ago. It has come all this way to become one of the most rehearsed hobbies of all. Painting is something I can do when I’m bored, it doesn’t take to much effort, and anyone could do it if they wanted. Painting expresses things without using words, people can get out what the truly want without

Will cursive die? Will it disappear in schools and in documents? Brian Palmer is the writer of “Is Cursive Dead.” Lauren Tarshis is the publisher of “ is it time or Cursive to Die?” There are main three factors in these articles they include that both think that this topic is important, but they don't say there is any way to fix it, but they don't just have similarities they have differences. Including that Brian Palmer talks more about cursive's history and Lauren Tarshis elaborates more on the present day 21st century. They have more similarities than differences

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.

As you know, most schools are getting rid of cursive all together, but why? Think about when kids get older and they have to sign something, are they going to sign in neat cursive or just write normal? Furthermore, schools should at least teach cursive for fifteen minutes a day. If kids keep progressing in cursive by only fifteen minutes a day, then the teachers should keep going on with it. Then, if other schools see how well it is working, more and more teachers will want to use it more often. If kids can't read cursive, or write their name in cursive, then teachers should still give them the basic steps. When the students get older they're going to say "Cursive is very nice to have around and I like using it every day." But, other critics argue we have computers and we are moving on with society so we don't need cursive. But sill, teachers should teach cursive at least for fifteen minutes, what do they have to

Technology has completely taken over when it comes to writing and it’s not fair to strip this curriculum out of schools and it’s especially not fair for the parents of young children to have to teach their children at home how to write in the cursive script I think it should at least be offered as an extra curriculum class such as music, band, and sports. I think that cursive writing could really benefit anyone children especially but for some reason the school systems have become so dependent on computer technology that a lot of the testing in schools are even done on a computer I remember doing CSAP testing and you had to make sure you filled in the correct bubble just right. As the author writes cursive is a lost virtue and to get it back is more than likely not going to happen this really makes me wonder what other skills schools no longer teach children I mean I know as parents it’s our job to prepare our children for the future but if it comes down to the point to where were having to teach our children the necessities to get them through life at home then what exactly is the point of public schools if they aren’t preparing our children for the future. To me cursive is like math people use it every day and if children aren’t being taught how to write it they definitely aren’t going to be able to

Taught more than thirty decades ago, cursive writing has a famed and legendary past. It was once a vital element of American education but is now becoming an archaic artefact as technology advancement and the requirement of more regulated tests push it out of the education system. Cursive writing should be scrapped out of the education system for there is no need of wasting time and resources to continue teaching a skill that won’t be beneficial to the students in the near future.

In conclusion, cursive does not need to leave it needs to stay. We need it to sigh things for checks or for work. When cursive was used way back in the day people had to learn it or they would not pass. Cursive takes time and takes time from more things to do. It would help them in the long run. Cursive was used to push people to write when they couldn’t do it. And that is way I think cursive should stay in schools today. There for, you should try to learn and keep cursive alive. We are going to need it one day but it might be

Take one moment, and imagine living in a nice, quaint house with a spouse and children. In the basement of this home, an old box of family memories sits untouched, collecting dust in the corner of the storage room. A time comes when the sons and daughters want to see pictures of their family; they want to know more about their history. They want to see what the amazing relative that the family often talks about looks like. The children run to the old box, and they see letters and pictures with descriptions on the back. The problem is--they cannot read the writing. The creative and traditional cursive writing just baffles their minds. If schools in America are not careful, cursive writing is going to become obsolete. It will just become a secret code for older generations, and kids will not be able to write in cursive, learn from the process of cursive writing, or read cursive writing. Clearly, cursive writing should still be taught in elementary schools.

I personally agree more strongly with the first essay. Writing is a huge part of the English language and cursive is almost historic. We sign our names in cursive, giving up on cursive would make us loose some of our own unique identities. Sure we have electronic sigure now a days (numeric password or thumb print) and sure we still need to learn how to properaly use technology but we still need a cursive signiture to help seperate us for other. It is absolutely astonishing how different all our cursive signitures are. Also If we were to give up on teaching cursive all together we would dismiss a chunk of history. In the past cursive is what our ancestors wrote in, If we were to move only to electronics we would be moving farther and farther

I am against cursive because, we should be learning how to use keyboard’s. Keyboard’s are the new way for almost everything whether it be texting, work, communication, some school work, games, news, books and movies. Not many kids like cursive much less learn or practice it. In keyboarding it's always nice writing, you never run out of ink or led like pencils or pen plus you can print it out on paper to! On computers you can more than one thing at a time.

Do you know why cursive should not be taught in school? Cursive should not be taught in school any longer. Communication usually involves typing and technology, not pencil and paper or cursive. Furthermore, hardly anyone uses cursive now that we have more technology. Cursive is something that you will not use everyday, you rarely use it and typing you most likely will always use.

Elementary schools used to have a major focus on handwriting and teaching the students how to write in cursive. There is a section on the SAT where each student has to write out a code of honorability in cursive. In the small classroom that I sat in to take the SAT, four students raised their hand and said they never learned cursive. Now, students take more time doing typing exercises on the computer. This is what technology is doing to our