Essay On Why Cursive Should Not Be Taught

Cursive should still be taught because studies show that 50 percent of literacy is cursive and it’s a tool that you can apply and gives you more options. Some examples to show that cursive should still be taught today are, you can write faster, you will need to write a signature, and you are more literate if you can read and write cursive. Although some people think cursive should not be taught is because everybody says that we don’t have any time for it or that we already use technology. Well, yes we have the technology, but if we only know how to use technology, then what are we to do if we find something in cursive, suppose maybe a letter from older generations, if we can’t read it because we only knew how to type. That’s just some facts of why cursive should be taught today. To begin with, cursive lets students and even adults write faster. Writing faster will help with if people need to take notes, possibly for college or even in regular grade school. To add cursive lets you think deeply when people are writing in cursive, which means you can think creatively and get answers for questions. Cursive can even help individuals express their ideas and more ideas then before. …show more content…
You will need signatures for checks, signing contracts, and even more. If you don’t know how to write in cursive everybody would lose their individual signature. Just imagine that you are looking at signatures at work trying to see who either bought it or who signed that contract, if you don’t know how to read or write cursive how are you supposed to get back to your boss about who signed that paper, check, or even contract. You could possible either get fired or even a lower paycheck. People still find letters from a couple of generations ago, most of that is in cursive, but if you don’t know now how are people supposed to know what the letter