Cursive In High School

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.

Cursive writing hasn’t been taught in schools for a while and will result in increased difficulties for students now and in the future. There are many things that involve cursive writing such as writing signatures or reading old documents. I think cursive writing should be taught because cursive inspires creativity, can be used as a tool, and develops motor skills for our brains. In my opinion, because cursive has many benefits, this form of writing should be taught in schools today.

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!

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

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.

In conclusion, cursive does not need to leave it needs to stay. We need it to sigh things for checks or for work. When cursive was used way back in the day people had to learn it or they would not pass. Cursive takes time and takes time from more things to do. It would help them in the long run. Cursive was used to push people to write when they couldn’t do it. And that is way I think cursive should stay in schools today. There for, you should try to learn and keep cursive alive. We are going to need it one day but it might be

In my oppinion i believe that cursive should be taught in every school from 1st garde till every student graduates, why? Cursive is a very important and useful skill, knowing how to write in cursive helps with everyday things, like signing you're name for example this is needed quite a bit in our everyday lives. In the passage the narrator suggests that cursive is good for the mind, i agree 100% with this statement, writing in a neat way, and at a higher difficulty tests you're ability to remember how to write the letter for one, and two you also look more intelligent and neat.

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.

Cursive handwriting is a dying skills for most american students. With the onset of technology and the movement in the United States to have all classroom school work completed on a computer, most elementary schools are not longer teaching kids how to write in cursive handwriting. Time that was once spent teaching this skill is now time used to teach students how to correctly type on a computer. Cursive handwriting should be required learning for all students in the United States. Cursive handwriting should be required because studies have shown that when students write in cursive, they become smarter students. Also, the documents of our country are all written in cursive and every citizen of this country should be able to read these documents. Finally, experts say that when students write in cursive, it slows their brain process down which makes them better students.

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.

Importance of Cursive Writing Physical books and different types of technology are just two things in life that are changing and even becoming non existant. Should an artform like cursive writing fall in this same outdated category? While cursive writing may seem past its time to some, others argue the many benefits for our minds this form of writing has. Writing in cursive should continue being taught in schools, simply to expose our students to a traditional and important form of writing. Along with this, knowing cursive will further help with fine-motor skill developement, reduce effects of brain injury, as well as being a good memorization technique.

Should cursive be a mandatory part of the school curriculum? My opinion is that it shouldnt be mandatory, but I think it should definently be taught still. When I was younger they still taught how to read and write cursive, some people understood it and some could'nt quite grasp the concept. I was one of the people that could'nt get the hang of it and I still cant to this day. In this essay I will be stating my own personal opinion of why I do not think cursive is an essential part of learning along with some statistics from both arguments and reasoning behind them.

I believe cursive writing is obsolete because I never learned how to write in cursive nor have I ever needed to. As said in the first argument "Cursive is a common teaching tool for students with dyslexia, a reading disorder." this is true because you can't mix up letters in cursive. I think that cursive shouldnt be a required thing to learn in school, but should always be available if needed. Most high schools and colleges expect you to turn in typed, rather than handwritten, papers. The survey took in 2012 given to handwriting teachers, only 37% of them wrote cursive.

WHAT! Oh excuse the screaming, it’s just there taking off cursive from schools which should not happen and besides that’s not fair for the children in the present school day. In my opinion cursive should be taught to kids all around the world. Cursive appears to be dying here’s a few reasons why should stay it. First of all cursive is needed for a signature, checks, and documents.

As far as I can remember cursive in the 4th grade for me was one of the most pointless things I went to school and could be learning. Now I say this with the though of knowing how much time we the students had our eyes on compurter screens. we barly even had to take a test on paper. For me cursive was a font that you could just select on word docs. As stated in the passages cursive writing is virtually gone. Yes handwriting as an whole is backseat riding with the way technology dominates our communition.