Cursive Handwriting Pros And Cons

Some adults may find it difficult to teach children cursive handwriting, but they need to look at how far along they came from learning cursive handwriting. Some adults learned cursive handwriting over a decade ago, it would be harder on them to try and teach cursive to their children. That’s why its up to the children’s education sources. Cursive handwriting needs to be put back into the public schools. “People who talk about the decline of handwriting as if its proof of the decline of civilization” (Trubek). Taking away cursive handwriting will have a decline in our civilization. Its just like taking an important piece of the world away from the people who live in it.

No one knows when cursive handwriting was taken out of schools. A Miami-Dade

Debra Robinson says, “Teachers have to spend their time showing students how to perform standardized testing skills such as answering multiple choice questions, bubbling in correct answers, and typing on the computer leaving a very short time for handwriting” (Soloman). Those standardized tests make it harder for students it triggers more anxiety because they must worry about if the answer is correct or not, or if they bubbled in the test bubble correctly. It is more challenging taking the standardized test on a computer because children are expected to already know so much information and they are not able to write out their work. They would have to think fast. The standardized tests don’t give enough time for their brain to process all the information. “Cursive is a bridge, not to just old journals and letters” (Beckham). This doesn’t mean cursive handwriting should not be

Adults were raised in the pre-internet era. Common core standards should be thrown out. “Those standards themselves had become politically charged in some states and scattered technical and even cyber attacks on online tests” (Leff). The common core curriculum is bad news. David Christiansen, a palm beach county deputy superintendent said “Cursive is listed among the Florida standards required to be taught in schools by the state department of education” (Soloman). More inquires involving cursive handwriting need to happen more around the world. “Fueled by the graphology lobby several states and school districts have reintroduced cursive instruction requirements in public schools” (Chin). More laws need to be passed around. There are plenty of reasons why cursive handwriting should be put back into public schools. It is very important for children to learn this skill. Cursive handwriting should be put back into public schools, so students nationwide can learn how to read and write in cursive. A nation of responsible and successful young adults has to come into