Hattie Waldock 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.

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.

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 Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive.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

In both of these articles the authors discuss and give reason on why cursive writing should be taught in schools, and why cursive writing is obsolete. The author of "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool" believes that cursive is essential for making our brains more stronger and functional. The ways cursive helps, is that by writing things down by hand it helps us process material better and medical brain scans show that it also helps with "fine motor-skill development and stimulates both the right and left parts of the brain". People with brain injuries might lose the ability to read in write, but in some case were still able to read and write in cursive. The author of "Cursive Is a Twenty-First Century Dinosaur", believes that cursive being removed from the classrom isn't a big deal. Saying that a survey back in 2012 at a conference was given to a group of handwriting teacher by a lead researcher. Only 37% of the handwriting teachers wrote in cursive. "If handwriting teachers don't value cursive, then why should anyone"? He/she goes on by saying that cursive is virtually gone, with technology being the

Should cursive be put back in school? I agree with the passage "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool". Cursive writting is essential,though not for the reasons people might guess. Cursive writting has been proven to be good for our minds. A couple of reasons why i agree that cursive writting is good for the brain are writing by hand helps people to remember ideas better than typing. Also, medical brain scans show that writing in cursive helps with motor-skills development and stimulates both the right and left part of the brain.

People are going to need to know how to read cursive in some famous documents. If it is not going to get taught then some of those documents are not going to to able to be read. Cursive has been around for centuries. Christopher Columbus wrote his adventures in the Americas in cursive handwriting. Thomas Jefferson penned one of our utmost famous documents “The Declaration of Independence” in cursive. People are going to need to

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

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.

I believe that we do not need cursive in school these researchers give me a lot of my reasoning’s .Researchers say it’s no wonder that many school leaders don't see cursive as a 20th century skill. Besides, and in my opinion schools are under enormous pressure to help students develop the math and reading skills they need to succeed on tests and in college. Teachers normally make their students type one the computer not in

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.

Frist of all, cursive should stay in schools. Students can master it just by working on any form of writing for

I belive that students should not be required to learn how to write in cursive. Now days in schools, they use computers and tablets for most things they do. Students should'nt have to learn cursive because the world is basically ran on computers anyways. On the computers while typing you can change the font to whatever you want it to be.

One cool fact I found was that 41 states don’t require cursive anymore. That’s more than half of the U.S! In my opinion, I don’t think students should be taught how to write cursive, it’s a waste of time. Although, I think students should be taught how to read it. To begin, with there is still a lot of cursive in the world, next, reading cursive helps our brain with many things, lastly, if schools don’t teach students how to read cursive are we going to read old documents.

Should cursive be taught in schools? Cursive should be taught in schools because some of the most famous documents are written in cursive. People also need cursive for their signature. Plus, with cursive you don’t need to pick up your pencil.

There is much controversy in wether or not cursive writing should be removed from schools. In my opinion it is essential to know how to write in cursive. These are the reasons why i believe that cursive should remain a requirment to graduate high school.