Should Cursive Writing Be Taught

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 Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive.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

My personal stand on the topic may stem from the fact that I was made to take cursive writing, not only alongside my entire class...I was also one of the lucky students who was terrible at handwriting, so they gave me seperate, extra classes to improve both my print and 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.

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

The research article “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking” was written by Pam A. Muller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer, and published by the Psychological Science in 2014. The article focuses on a series of previous research on the topic and studies with the goal of providing evidence to answer their two main questions. The first question is which one the two note taking strategies works better and increases academic performance longhand note taking or laptop note taking. The second question is how verbatim overlap (word for word) affects our learning. In the article, three studies were conducted similarly but as the studies were made something new was added to explore new aspects of learning.

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 conclusion I believe that we don’t need cursive in schools. First of all kids are more impressed with technology to spend the time and neatness on cursive. The 20th century skill is not needed in these 21st century skilled classroom, but in these classrooms we just need normal handwriting also if u want your kids to learn cursive u spend your time on it teachers have to teach them normal handwriting enough. Therefore I think that we should not teach cursive in schools and I want you to wright your best without

These people would say that handwriting is passe’, or outdated, and that in the future, everyone will be using word processors to do their writing. Education is important, but schools already have ways to get students to write, that doesn’t involve the repetitive time to practice your writing to make it better. They can enforce these rules of writing without having to practice everyday. For instance, homeschooling parents can be quite confused by the subject of handwriting, so whenever Sam Blumenfeld lectures at a homeschool convention, he always asks if parents think that handwriting should be formally taught. Usually the response is unanimously positive. Mr. Blumenfield, raised this statement for parents to think about,“So you agree that teaching your child to write is an important part of you homeschooling curriculum.”, the next question he raises is if you believe that handwriting should be formally taught, he asks “do you believe that your child should be taught manuscript, also known as “ball and stick” first or cursive first?” Most parents assume that “ball and stick should precede cursive, because that’s the way they were taught in school. ( Sam Blumenfeld, The Benefits of Cursive Writing)

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.

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

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.

Think about what you have done today before reading this. Did you brush your teeth, go to the bathroom, write something down? You probably have written something down without even knowing. Handwriting is very important in day to day life. Without it, there are many things that we could not do. If you know print that is great but you are even better off if you know cursive also. You will be able to read it, help those with disabilities,and be about to sing you signature.

In fifth grade, I got a letter from my grandparents and I said to my mom, “I can’t read it” She said, “Well it’s in cursive and I believe you didn’t learn that.” Still till this day in time I’m in eighth grade and I wonder why I didn’t learn cursive and is it that hard to learn?

Whether or not there should be cursive writting in classrooms has become a controversial argument for everybody. I believe that there should be cursive writting in classrooms. It is very important that everybody learns cursive.

My first reason for this being said comes from the first article, in many cases it has helped students learn better than typing everything a teacher says. It makes the student work to learn how to summarize what the teacher is saying and helps improve because after so long of typing it is just muscle memory and requires not much skill to type. With that being said a student who writes more actually has to take the time to write and as he is repeating what the teacher said to write he is memorizing it as he goes so he can write it down.