In my personal opinion, cursive should not be practiced in schools because technology is moving at a very fast rate and the next generation needs to exceed in technology so we can move foward to make the United States of America a better place economical wise. 37% of teachers in a 2012 conference even use cursive according to the text, therefore the popularity of cursive has already started decreasing if the teachers are ready to move on then we should to. "A signature is no longner needed for many legal documents and recipts."In modern day we use ipads,tablets, and laptops to write a electronic signatures or send it through an email, therefore there's no use for cursive anymore.
In the early 1900's we wrote telegrams to cummunicate, presently in the 21st centry we can communicate on our phones and send text messages. The writing way was too slow so we as a nation progressed into something faster we can not keep progressing if we backtrack. Schools are requireing that students can type 60 words a minute to prepare them for highshool and then college that is where the focus is and should be. Removing cursive from schools should not be up for debate insted a desion. The next generation of americans must have fully functional computer skills our global economy demands it, if the next geration is not prepared america will be left …show more content…
The scientists who recorded the test belived the students who wrote by hand did better because writing notes by hand requires the students to summerize insted of writing everything word by word. Cursive is more benifical for the brain rather then typing its a proven fact, but it's not used in modern day society which means it is useless to know and if something is useless to know you might as well not even know it in the first
In the early 1900's we wrote telegrams to cummunicate, presently in the 21st centry we can communicate on our phones and send text messages. The writing way was too slow so we as a nation progressed into something faster we can not keep progressing if we backtrack. Schools are requireing that students can type 60 words a minute to prepare them for highshool and then college that is where the focus is and should be. Removing cursive from schools should not be up for debate insted a desion. The next generation of americans must have fully functional computer skills our global economy demands it, if the next geration is not prepared america will be left …show more content…
The scientists who recorded the test belived the students who wrote by hand did better because writing notes by hand requires the students to summerize insted of writing everything word by word. Cursive is more benifical for the brain rather then typing its a proven fact, but it's not used in modern day society which means it is useless to know and if something is useless to know you might as well not even know it in the first