Should Cursive Writing Be Taught In Schools

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.

For many students in America, cursive writing is as foreign as the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egypt. In most colleges and universities, more students are increasingly using tablet computers and laptops to take notes rather than the old adage of using pen and paper.

Since technology has been taking over society, schools think it is better if kids get more familiar with technology. Just think, if you can’t write in cursive then you can write a check or write your signature. You definitely won’t be able to read anything in cursive if you don’t learn it.Plus scientists have proved that when u learn cursive and read cursive you use a different part of your brain than when you would read regular print. Learning cursive is good for kid’s motor skills and writing longhand generally helps student retain more information and generate more ideas. Mostly everything in history is written in cursive, like the Declaration of Independence. Studies have also shown that kids who learn cursive rather than simply manuscript writing score better on reading and spelling tests, perhaps because the linked-up cursive forces writers to think of words as wholes instead of parts. Some people suffer brain injuries that damage their ability to write and understand print—while their ability to comprehend cursive remains.

Cursive writing requires a very different skill set from print writing. It involves using the hand muscles in a different way. Additionally, it activates a different part of the brain than regular writing does. At the age cursive is taught, around 7 or 8 years old, these skills can be very beneficial in furthering motor skill

“I don’t know how to write in cursive”, and then they say”sorry, we don't know how to cash your check!” I one hundred percent guarantee that after that you will be mad because you either one: didn’t learn it in school because people told you you didn’t have to learn it because we won't teach it. Or two: you were just too ignorant and didn’t feel like you needed to learn it and teach yourself cursive. Let’s do another analogy. Let’s say that your health is kinda iffy and you need to get constant stuff in the mail. When the delivery man/woman comes and asks you to sign for the package that they brought you and you just started getting all of this. He says “Sir, can you sign this please,” and you look at him like ‘you want me to do what kind of face.’ But you don’t give your signature and then they can’t give you the stuff that you need to make your health improve. So now you’re thinking i need to teach myself cursive since i didn’t learn it in school. So you go to the technology that has taken over society that you used in school instead of learning cursive, and you go to google right away and search in the search bar ‘cursive tutorial’ Cursive will also give the students a type of reformed learning with the alphabet. When students are taught the English language in only one form, print writing, they get only one chance to