Why Cursive Should Be Allowed To Die

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Cursive Should Be Allowed to Die!
Cursive is slowly dying, it has been for the last couple of years, people have stopped using cursive in a lot of things. It isn’t even the most used writing, a lot of schools have stopped teaching cursive and it isn’t a requirement to teach it anymore. Cursive is dying and we should let it die. In this paper I will talk about some reasons you should let it die.
Cursive has been taught for many years, but now cursive is not being used as much. For example at a handwriting conference, only 37% wrote wrote in cursive. Let’s face it cursive is already starting to die. Teachers would be better off focusing on other needed skills and knowledge that can help the student, unlike cursive that will not give the student

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