Increase Time to Teach Cursive Children now-a-days grow up without the access to a good education in cursive. They instead grow up with computers, phones, and tablets. This change that occurred in the last twenty years represents a phasing out of cursive handwriting, but growing up as someone who avidly uses cursive on a daily basis, I think that this choice is not the same choice that should be made. Growing up I remember the struggle of having to differentiate between myself and my classmates, because despite the fact that others could not read my notes I still remained top of my class, simply because I could take more detailed notes than they could. This brings me back to the reason why the disparity in my writing speed is so much different …show more content…
Furthermore, the time students spend writing does not correlate with the time given to the development of cursive handwriting, causing them to fall behind. Let's begin by examining the details of the materials given to each and every student, using the simple cursive worksheet. This worksheet, is used around the world and represents the attempt to learn cursive, but not the mastery of it because simply writing “each letter three times” (Source B) does not cut it. This is alarming because many students are given a worksheet that neglects the process of connecting letters, and the process of forming words. Imagine learning English by only learning the alphabet, where would that get you?-- nowhere. The same ideology reigns true for cursive writing; it needs to be treated like a foreign language, not something glazed over with a single-use worksheet. As students age, the use of the paper versus technology is shocking, with the increase of paper assessments becoming at least twice that done on …show more content…
Cursive is a heavily selective skill, allowing many to succeed, yet people can still succeed without it. This nuance is very true, in the same fashion that a student can be smart naturally, whilst another can be just as intelligent with hours of study. This ideology holds true with cursive writing as well, with established writer Justin Pot stating, “I didn’t use cursive writing; I kept up just fine.” (Source E) Taking a quick look at the way that this is phrased, this points to the better option being to learn cursive writing. Despite his opinions on cursive writing, he notices that cursive writing may be faster in some situations, but he still did just as well as his classmates. But, he had to put in more work to get there, in this case he was the child who had to study, he had to run whilst others walked, all because of the difference between him not knowing cursive versus others who did. To return to my point, cursive writing is not necessary to become the best in your class, but it sure does help a