Why Cursive Should Not Be Taught In Schools

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In my opinion, cursive should not be taught in schools these days. I say this because, why learn another print, and cursive doesn’t help our brain, lastly, cursive writing doesn’t have an impact on our lives. So, what I’m trying to put together is that, cursive should not be taught in schools anymore. First of all, why learn another print? Yeah it is pretty cool to learn and be able to write in rsive and such, but. Learning cursive is a waste of time, and is very hard to learn. And, it is also very hard to read. Imagine, trying to read scribbles for learning, it also takes quite a lot of time to be taught cursive. Also, cursive is very hard to write, you can’t pick up your pen, pencil, you can’t let your words fly off of the line, and trying to write cursive big is also a problem. Over all, cursive is just hard.
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It actually effects the human brain. Taking away time from the actual writing, print. You may never use print again because, you just might forget. And then say you’re getting bad at writing cursive, then what are you going to do. It would be pretty embarrassing if you had to go back to first grade to learn the alphabet again. Next, the human brain wouldn’t be use to this new language therefor it would be hard trying to focus on both. Overall, the brain isn’t helped by cursive at

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