I believe that you should be taught handwriting in elementary school. Parents, students, and teacher might not agree, but I think it’s a good idea. Learning handwriting in elementary signature, and it makes your handwriting prettier. Learning handwriting in elementary school can help you and many ways. Making your handwriting better will really help you throughout your life. Some people write good and some people might not. A lot of people do not care what their handwriting looks like. For example, say that you have a project that has to be neat how are you suppose to get a good grade on it. Everyone needs to learn handwriting to help your writing style. Better handwriting is a good way to be a good writer.
You only really need cursive to sign for houses, cars, and checks. Cursive can be very difficult for some kids to learn. They can get very confused very easily because of all the lines and movements. It can also depend on how old the kid is, if he's younger it will probably be a lot more difficult compared to if he was older. Usually kids learn how to right all of the letters then the hardest part is putting then into sentences and being able to understand it.
...is important, and those states risk the chance of losing memory retention and critical brain development, but at the same time, they are eliminating unnecessary instruction. The reality is that handwriting, albeit important, is a disputable topic and has its balance of advantages and disadvantages.
There are also reasons that cursive should be taught. Studies show it broadens the brain and makes think more while writing in cursive. It also brings out more inner thoughts in the brain. Someday we will need cursive for car signature, loans, student loan, and a lot more things that require cursive. Studies also show that it activates different parts of the brain and shows fine motor skills towards kids.
What benefits does cursive writing hold, if students were to learn? Phsycologists found that if students hand write vs. type they remember better what was wriiten down. Well who said you need to know cursive to hand write? There is something called fine print, and we use that everyday of our lives. You just don't need cursive anymore. That is why it should never be required.
After reading this article I saw a different perspective on why children cannot write. In today’s world grammar is being put to the side and not focused on in the classroom. It seemed like it was the children that tried to avoid learning grammar. English class in the past were filled with lessons on grammar. Grammar was enforced in every aspect of schooling.
Handwriting is a means of expressing language, just like speech. However, handwriting is not taught in school as much as in previous years. In the past, handwriting was taught as a precursor to reading and spelling. Today, students of all ages are rigorously tested on their writing skills, yet they are not allowed the time it takes to develop this skill. I remember writing in a Big Chief notebook, holding a chubby pencil, trying my best to make the curves and lines of the letters just right. When I attended elementary school, the teacher devoted at least forty-five minutes to handwriting each day. Handwriting should still be taught in school because it is an essential first step to reading and expressing one’s thoughts and feelings and because of its impact on higher education.
Many believe that the inclusion of cursive writing into the Core Curriculum will cause nothing but confusion and undermine the standards in place. (Polikoff) Proponents of printing stress that there is little to be gained from teaching cursive writing. However, studies regarding the benefits of cursive writing suggest otherwise.
“Phenomenologically, Donny and Timmy were not growing up in a literate environment. Although they lived in a home situation in a city situated in a country that contained many forms and functions for print, they did not experience it. They did not notice it around them; they did not understand its uses. Their world functioned without written language” (Purcell-Gates, 1997, p. 58).
It is very difficult to feed a family of four (4) on a food stamp budget specially two active teenagers. Our family’s weekly food stamp budget was $124. It was also very hard to eat what we generally eat with that amount of money. We generally spend $125 to $160 a week on groceries but we are just replenishing the pantry and refrigerator not having to buy everything we need. It was very difficult to stay in the budget.
Education can be a powerful tool for people to use. With the right type and amount of knowledge, most people can accomplish what others dream to do for a living. All over the United States, there are plenty of schools and possibly five or ten times that amount in students that attend them. Each school is unique in certain ways, such as one school might offer AP programs to cater to students who are capable of advancing faster than others. While another school might be focused on getting students into early entry-level positions within their chosen career fields.
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some people think that teaching cursive writing is frustrating. But it is 50% of literacy. Cursive writing may help those with special needs, keeps our brains active in old age, and we still use it today. In my opinion, cursive should be taught in schools because it can help kids that can’t write regular writing.
Most importantly, if you’re ever going to make a back account or something import in business my prospective I’m sure they are going to being need your signature and for having that our generations should be learning how to write cursive. Those are my reasons and if you think cursive should also still be taught and not banned from schools then you should keep on reading. To begin with, cursive actually helps us with our knowledge. While writing cursive you’ll most likely keep writing because the writing feels so fluent for the reason of that you don’t have to pick up your pencil for any word.
Cursive; Is it essential in the education of public schools? In my opinion, the answer would to this question would be yes. I will provide three reasons that cursive is essential in public education.Three reasons that support the importance of cursive writing are that it helps students with their dyslexia, developes fine motor-skills and it exercises and stimulates both hemispheres of the brain.
When I was in high school, I was very involved in the arts. I took a band, choir and two years of visual art. During the years of high school, I knew that the fees for the art courses cost much more than other electives at my school. I also observed that the school focused more on their athletic and academics programs, than on their art programs. We had many fundraisers to raise more money for the art programs even after paying an already expensive fee to takes these electives. Schools are neglecting the visual arts programs and placing all of their money and focus on academics and athletics programs. I propose a balance between the arts, academics, and the athletics.
As I stated in my previous reflective essay, I hated writing in grade school. I sucked my teeth and groaned every time my teachers assigned an essay for homework. I don’t actually hate writing. I just disliked it because I never excelled in it. I wrote just to get the job done, but never took the time to pay attention to the writing process and the other aspects of writing. As I grew older and got a career, I realized how important writing was in the real world. From friends revising your status updates on Facebook that were plagued in grammatical errors or writing a professional email to your boss, writing skills are crucial to the real world.