Should Elementary Schools Continue to Teach Cursive Writing? By Aurélie V

   

    Who here is annoyed to be obliged to read someone else's text whose handwriting is pretty bad? Many of you must have answered this question by a yes and that is surely why everyone should still learn cursive writing in elementary school. All teachers in elementary school should continue to teach cursive writing or at least have the basic on how to read it. I think that it is really important for everyone. Many people still write with cursive letters. Scientist made some surveys and discovered one thing, many children from our generation do not know how to write or read cursive. First of all, their is more risk of forgery if we do not sign in cursive, secondly, older people, like teachers, still use cursive and last but not least it is neater and used to be taught in almost every grade.

     First of all, by not writing in cursive there is more risk of forgery. Who would want someone to use their name to sign any documents, bank accounts or even use their identity for anything? I think no one would want to live with that and this is why elementary schools have to learn children how to write in cursive. It could prevent many things that no one wants to be part of. Cursive writing is used in daily life and it is way harder for someone to imitate someone's signature if it is written in cursive because each person has their own way of writing in cursive, printed writing mostly look the same. If children got to learn cursive it could help make our society better and harder for people to use someone else name.

     Secondly, many people that are older now just write in cursive, besides many teachers and parents still write using cursive. Children have to learn to at least read cursive because how embarassing would it be if you could not read what your teacher wrote on your paper ? Let's say it could be a bit awkward. But this already happened, for example, in the article Do You Write In Cursive? by Shannon Doyne in The New York Times, Alex Heck, a twenty-two years old girl admitted that a short time after her grandmother died she had left her journal to be read but Alex said that she barely remembered how to read or even write cursives. People have to be able to understand cursive. It is used since the beginning of writing so why would we stop it in the 21th Century? 

     

     Thirdly, cursive writing is way neater and used to be learned in every school from grade three to grade six and sometimes even in grade eight. If everyone would write in cursive it would be easier for everyone to understand what each other wrote on paper. It would also look more neater and always look the same since there is not many different ways to make a cursive letter. Besides almost everyone could understand each other if we still used cursive everyday.

    In conclusion, cursive writing is used on daily basis. I think cursive writing should still be learned in school. People use them against forgery, teachers used them in school and it looks totally neater when it is written on a sheet of paper. Cursives are never too old to be written and no one should forget how useful it could be later on. 

   

                                             Aurélie V