Should Cursive Writing Be Taught In Schools

Cursive writing comes from the Latin word currere, which means "to run” because all of the letters are connected. People believe that cursive writing should be taught in schools but others believe that it shouldn’t be taught. It’s all about whether you enjoy it or dislike it. Some people think that cursive is useless and why can't you just type with a pretty font but it's more than that. I believe that cursive writing should be taught in schools because it is nice, makes things neat and decent, and writing things down helps you comprehend more.

Cursive writing is nice and beautiful. At Blackshear Elementary School, a Texas school is failing academic condition by focusing on handwriting, the teachers noted that excellent handwriting was a goal

74,806 have voted for YES and 23,466 have voted for NO (survey) Scholastic News. The people who have voted no seem to dislike writing in the form of cursive. “Cursive should be allowed to die. In fact, it's already dying, despite having been taught for decades” - Morgan Polikoff. He believes that cursive is out of date. While this example does explain cursive, it leaves out some important facts. The scholastic survey stated that 74,806 voted yes and 23,466 voted no so we can see that more people enjoy cursive writing. Even though people disagree handwriting can be a great skill that is worth teaching. Overall, we can see that cursive is something that you either like or dislike. People need to be able to read cursive and have an understanding, we learn stuff better by writing it down, and legible cursive is still an important mode of communication. When writing cursive you can learn or try something new, have improvement in handwriting and you should be able to read and understand cursive. You don’t have to know just how to write your name in cursive. Tryout cursive handwriting and see if that can improve your handwriting or just to make your handwriting look neat and