To What Extent Should Cursive Still 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 Reading historical documents, personalization, and brain function involves cursive.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.

Cursive may not be here forever. Cursive should be taught so that children can sign their signatures on checks. On the other hand cursive should not be taught since people say that it is a waste of time. There are many reasons why cursive should be taught and why is should not be taught. People may be losing a link from the

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!

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.

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

In conclusion, I strongly believe that cursive should still be taught in school. In collage cursive will help you write faster and more efficient. People need to learn cursive because if you love learning about history and you don’t know to read cursive because a lot of history is in cursive. Cursive should still be taught because if

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

First of all Cursive should still be taught for so many reasons and let me explain them to you. It helps with the learner’s brain process in what needed in the future. Should still be taught in many schools for the benefits in the future. Why it should be taught in schools in the country. That cursive should still be taught in schools for these reasons of the following.

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.

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

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.