Why should someone learn to write cursive?

Question

Many writing tasks must be done by hand, especially in elementary school. Not all writing is done on a technological device.

The invention of cursive intended for writing to be made easier to do, in less time and with less effort. Students who acquire it find writing tasks less stressful

Cursive has helped students maintain focus, use more parts of the brain, improve their spelling, and even retain information.

Answer 1

I understand the debate. However, I learned to write cursive, and I still use it. Certainly, we need to sign our names in cursive on a legal document (including a paycheck), but most adults will eventually establish their own penmanship.

Upon learning to write cursive, students can learn how much quicker they can take notes by hand. Although we understand that technology is on its way to replace the human penmanship, it is important to hang on to the skill of cursive writing.

Don't you wonder who decided to change the rule in the schools? Kind of like prayer and the pledge of allegiance, everything thing is temporary.

Answer 2

Learning to write in cursive may seem like a waste of time. However, students who are never given the opportunity to get comfortable with cursive, never have the chance to decide if they would like to use this method as their own as they go forward in life. If one takes a look at students who were taught both cursive and manuscript or print, it will be seen students chose one or the other, or sometimes a combination of each as their own handwriting style. Cursive is a faster way to write and also a more personal style. Lastly, students who do not learn to write in cursive, do not know how to read it. When they come across text written in cursive, it is almost a foreign language to them. In summary, students should be given at least two to three years in elementary school during which they focus on cursive after which they can make their own educated choice of a personal handwriting style.

Answer 3

I think the jury’s out on whether cursive is still needed, in particular cursive that meets the standards of teachers. Long before I had any kind of electronic device, but after I had escaped the judgment of teachers of handwriting, I went through six years of university notetaking and research for papers using a fluid form of printing that I developed to meet my own needs. And as for spelling, where that is assisted by recognizing the appearance of a word when it’s spelled correctly, that’s much easier to see in handwriting that mimics print. (I worked for the publisher of the spelling series that uses letter frames to help kids learn.)

Nowadays I use cursive only on the rare occasions when I need to produce my legal signature, and that wouldn’t pass muster as legible.