Elementary Schools Teach Handwriting

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.

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?

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.

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 Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive.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

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.

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.

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 On the other hand, people believe cursive writing should be in school because it allows children to read historical documents like the Declaration of Independence.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

Teaching children handwriting has been an accepted and integral part of early childhood education. But the Common Core Standards that many schools have now adopted no longer require that handwriting be taught past kindergarten and first grade. Should such methods be abandoned? Is writing even helpful? Don’t we have computers to do the writing for us, so do we really need handwriting? Is writing effective? Maria Konnikova addresses these questions in her article What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades published in The New York Times on June 2, 2014. She cites the concerns of neuroscientists and psychologists that handwriting has long term benefits in both children and adults. Writing stimulates neurons in the brain to increase learning, memory, and

Suzi Allan sought help at her son’s school after hearing from his teacher that his handwriting needed some work. She was wondering when the kids would learn cursive writing and was told by the teacher that the school wasn’t offering it. Something needed to be done. Action was taken by Pam Roach, a state lawmaker in Washington, who tried to get a law passed that would require cursive to be taught in Washington schools, however it did not get voted on so it did not become a law.Schools should ensure that students value their education.(Seattle Times via Newsela).That’s why schools should teach cursive writing.

First of all, 50% of literacy is cursive writing, you even need cursive to open a bank account. First, cursive writing cursive helps you create a signature. Also, cursive helps kids write faster. Lastly, cursive writing helps the brain to develop. Cursive may take up some time, but it is worth having a signature that most jobs require. In my opinion, cursive writing should be taught in school.

“Handwriting is already suffering a major blowback” says Joanne Jacobson who is a curriculum director of Fraser Public Schools. Cursive may be legible for kids who are below third grade but by the time they reach fifth grade they all have developed their own style of handwriting. With or without learning cursive writing, a child’s handwriting develops for better over the years.

Nine to 13 years old should learn to type for eight grade. First of all, college students take notes on laptops. Next forty one states don’t need students to learn cursive. Finally, school leasers don’t see cursive as a twenty first century. In my option cursive should not be taught in school.

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 my school days Preschool through 5th grade I always get notes to my parents mostly the cards where bad some was great so in first grade I would try to read them but I would fail at reading cursive. Then I would try even harder to read them every year I would get better and better every year Intel I read them in 6th grade. 50 % of literacy is hand writing. It helps us commutate. Cursive it becomes loss of art. In my opining cursive wiring should be taught in school, it will help us sing contrast, take notes faster.

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.