Should Cursive Writing Be Taught In Schools

Cursive writing should be taught in schools to young children. I learned how to write in cursive in the fifth grade. Because of this, I was then able to read letters from my grandparents, and I could also read old letters from my ancestors because they all wrote their letters and documents in cursive. If the schools stop teaching this type of hand writing to the children, how will they ever know how to read old documents?
Cursive handwriting also helps with your motor skills in the brain. It stimulates both the left and the right brain. However, typing words or just printing words don’t require stimulation from both sides of the brain.
When you write by hand rather than typing, it helps individuals remember their ideas easier. For example, you would be better of writing notes for an important test on paper rather than typing what you hear from the teacher. Psychologist have ran tests on this theory. They believe it is because writing

something down makes it easier for your brain to process. When they tested this theory the students who typed out their notes performed worse on their test than the ones who wrote out their notes by hand.
When someone gets a horrific brain injury, their ability to read and write may be affected.

However in some cases, one with a severe brain injury may still be able to read and write in cursive. Learning and practicing cursive handwriting after a brain injury would make the brain stronger. Cursive, printing, and typing all affect different areas of the brain. Cursive handwriting is also taught to many children with dyslexia. It can be a common tool used for identifying brain disorders as well.
By not teaching children how to read and write in cursive at a young age is neglecting parts of their brains that are important to learning and to thinking. If we stop teaching this way of writing, they will be losing their ability to use that part of their brain to its full potential. If we completely give up on writing on paper and we begin to rely on only typing and computers, we may not be actually learning the things that are of basic knowledge. I wouldn’t want our next generation to end up that

way.