To What Extent Should Cursive Still Be Taught

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.

First, it takes too much time to learn cursive. It takes over year to learn cursive maybe even more time. Grownups probably forget how to use cursive so they have to learn it again, that’s a lot of time! Some schools even ban cursive writing because it takes too long

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 Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive.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

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

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.

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.

Once in fourth grade we were going to learn cursive and the next day she never taught us and now I feel like we should be taught cursive today. Three reasons why I think cursive should be taught today because it could gain practical life skill, you could take faster notes when you are at school or work, and it is easier to communicate with older generations. In my opinion I think cursive should still be taught today in

I agree with the first article because mainly when i grew up i had to learn cursive. I think people should learn it because it should be an essential. I was taught how to write curisve in third grade. It has helped me out alot with my signature.

Or how amongst many things they can read the bible, Shakespeare, so there is no use. That our children should be learning and focused on things that matter like counting and comprehension. However, I feel that cursive should be put back into common core and left there. How else can we connect to the past? Cursive writing allows us to connect to the past whether its history or reading our grandparents letters. If you cannot write cursive how do you except to understand it. A lot of historical documents like the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and many others are all originally written in cursive. Seems as if today youth will only be able to read the transcripts of these documents. I’m not okay with that and neither should our education

I believe that cursive writing should be taught to students starting at an early grade. As a kid in 4th grade I was taught the basics of cursive writing. I learned how to write basic letters but, never full words or sentences. The main reason I think cursive writing should be taught is that most American institutions still require a cursive signature. I cannot sign my name in cursive my printed signature is the same as my cursive signature. Cursive writing requires a very different skill set from printed writing. Involving the hand muscle in a different way. Cursive writing also activates a different part of the brain than regular writing does. If taught at early age (7 or 8 years old) these skills can be very beneficial in furthering motor

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.

One cool thing about cursive is that cursive can help people communicate with all generations. I had started learning cursive when I was in 3rd grade. I personally think learning cursive was really exciting too. Also cursive can boost creativity. Help people develop a signature, which is a standard requirement as an adult. And is 50% literacy. In my opinion, I believe that cursive should still be taught in school.

People may be putting an end to cursive. Is cursive going to be here forever? Cursive has been around for centuries. Christopher Columbus wrote his adventures in the Americas in cursive handwriting. Thomas Jefferson penned one of our most famous documents The Declaration of Independence in cursive. Most people that mix cursive and regular handwriting are able to write per minute. Are people going to loose a link from the past? Should cursive be taught?

Additionally this shows that even librarians and schools don't think cursive is vital enough for it to be taught to us kids considering they take it out of there library's. In conclusion teaching cursive now would cause pandemonium and be unbeneficial because it would put people in different spots and confuse