Cursive Writing Should Still Be Taught In School

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 Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive.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.

I believe cursive writing is obsolete because I never learned how to write in cursive nor have I ever needed to. As said in the first argument "Cursive is a common teaching tool for students with dyslexia, a reading disorder." this is true because you can't mix up letters in cursive. I think that cursive shouldnt be a required thing to learn in school, but should always be available if needed. Most high schools and colleges expect you to turn in typed, rather than handwritten, papers. The survey took in 2012 given to handwriting teachers, only 37% of them wrote 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.

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!

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.

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.

Cursive should still be tough in schools. One reason is most kids can not read or write in cursive. Or write there name in cursive. One of the mane reasons that cursive should still be taught in schools is, because even now we use electronics devices for jus about everything paper and pen is still good for a few things such as cursive. Cursive should still be taught in schools.

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.

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.

When my fourth grade teacher tought our class cursive it was a very stressful ordeal for the class as a whole. We had just bareley learned how to read and wright properly, then they throw us into this cursive twillight zone where we dont know anything again. looking at this, its not hard to believe that cursive is no longer being taught in public schools. And for good reason, the world is moving on to the diamond age of technology where you dont even

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.

Some take the side that we need to continue to teach cursive. These people have even come up with some quite compelling augments. Including the claim that cursive helps simulate and develop the brain. Plus, the fact that without it students will not be able to read historical documents. If they can't do this then some of wonderful past will get lost. Some even go as far as saying that the students that wrote their S.A.T. essays in cursive received a higher score on them than those who wrote them in print. Now at first glance, these arguments might seem pretty great, right?

Do you think cursive should be taught in school? Schools should not teach cursive, instead they should teach kids how to sign their name and then move to another topic. Almost everything is done on computers now and handwriting is dying out. Even when people do use handwriting now most print instead of write cursive. Common core standards which is what most schools use isn't even teaching cursive any more.

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.