Cursive Writing

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.

There are quite a few reasons why cursive should be taught. When children grow up to be adults they will need to be able to sign their signature or read a formal invitation. Without lifting a pen from paper additional words can be written per minute. Cursive is a different form of handwriting that is fun to use. Those are some reasons why cursive should be taught. Some people say cursive should not be taught.

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!

Many students believe that cursive is extremely hard, but it takes time and practice. If you have to sign in cursive then why not learn it. In fact, Cursive isn’t only a way to write, but is a way of art. Many really important things are written in cursive. Though, cursive is hard to write it is better than print. Print is pretty much a waste of time. In fact, cursive takes a shorter amount of time than print. Print can be messy and you have to lift the pen or pencil to write a letter and word, but in cursive you only have to lift it one word at a

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.

Why wouldn't you want to learn cursive writing? Cursive writing is good for our minds. When writing it down on paper, you remember what you wrote better. Cursive writing is good for people that have brain injuries or weakness. All teachers need to teach their students cursive writing.

Cursive is something that many people still learn today, but eventually as time goes on it will be buried up and forgotten. The reason for this is because of how we are creating new ways of doing things, but are they really helpful? Yes, but that still doesn't mean cursive should be thrown in the trash. Its something that should be an option to those who want to learn about writing, want to enhance their english, or just want to learn for fun. Cursive can be really helpful for students who have a hard time with test because it is shown that students who write their notes do better than those who don't.

To begin with, there are many reasons that cursive writing is very important and good for us to know. A lot of people wonder why students learn how to write cursive in the age of IPhone, tablets, computers, etc. Cursive writing has been used for a very long time. Many of the hand writing done was in cursive for a very long time.

Cursive writing, fancy letters, joined together to form loops, has been taught for centuries.There are seven states that are fighting to teach cursive writing, they say that “It helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate.”[Boone 2] But on the other hand, critics say that cursive is outdated, In fact, According to USA Today, “41 States no longer require students to learn cursive.”With this in mind, it is clear that cursive writing should no longer be taught.

Do you know how to write in cursive? If you do, do you use it often? Schools no longer are required to teach this critical skill. States are instead given the choice. But cursive is a necessary skill. You are still required to write your signature in cursive. And what if you find your great-grandmother's diary? There is a good chance she wrote it in cursive. This is just one circumstance in which a person needs this skill. And then there’s the problem that students can’t read the Declaration of Independence. Cursive also helps reinforce learning for younger children.

How ever ther there are those who believe that cursive is useless. Acording to a survey only 37% of handwriting teachers at a conference wrote in cursive. The thought is that is if teachers dont care about cursive why should we.

Writing in cursive helps people retain information much better than simply typing words on a keyboard. It stimulates both the right and left sides of the brain and helps to develop motor skills. It can also help people recover from brain injurys and dyslexia. It is helpful for people with these disorders to exercise the brain. It also helps to improve coordination.

My own point of view of the controversial descion of cursive writing is some what both sided. Although there are many pros and few cons of cursive writing I still feel as though that cursive writing is esssential to whatever your higher educational needs may be. I also feel that it is unessecary to succeed your educational goals whatever they may be. In this breifly detailed essay I will be expalining why I feel as the above reflects.

Many people belive that writing in cursive isn't as important as it was made out to be. Studies and reasearch show this differently yet schools are still continuing to not teach cursive writing. Cursive improves our motor skills, learning, and the healthiness of our brains along with many other great deeds. You don't try to fix things that aren't broken, so why change the system of what's worked for us for many years? Cursive writing is down right the best things for our minds, so we shouldn't stop