Not if you approach the question logically.
Ask yourself, what is the purpose of school?
Then ask yourself, what is teh value of cursive writing.
Now you have an objective template from which to see the obvious answer.
Nope -- still an opinion.
It's faster than printing and I can't imagine a world where we only rely on keyboards to communicate.I remember my second grade teacher saying we needed to learn to write in cursive so we could write college papers in the future. Of course, no one wanted anything but papers typed in Times New Roman via Microsoft Word by the time my college years rolled around. I think cursive has gone the way of calligraphy in the sense that it’s a neat skill to have but it’s completely unnecessary in the digital era.
Both are letters, both should be able to be read and understood. Like I said, cursive isn't hard to learn, and yes, it does come down to style. Put sometimes in life style and form matters. Clearly we use cursive for our signatures which are meant to be official. Use an unfamiliar signature, and sometimes your document or legal form, or your voting registration is rejected. So, cursive has a place in not only business, but official documents. But is also has a place in formal writing and correspondence too. If you hand wrote a formal invitation to someone for a formal event, wouldn't you use cursive?Why does how your letters are formed make a difference? Why is cursive superior to print in your mind?
It's faster than printing and I can't imagine a world where we only rely on keyboards to communicate.
The other thing important about learning cursive is being able to read it. The majority of primary historical records are written in cursive--even the census. All the letters and diaries reaching back to before the Civil War in the trunk in the attic from my ancestors are written in cursive. I'd hate if I couldn't read them.
Both are letters, both should be able to be read and understood. Like I said, cursive isn't hard to learn, and yes, it does come down to style. Put sometimes in life style and form matters. Clearly we use cursive for our signatures which are meant to be official. Use an unfamiliar signature, and sometimes your document or legal form, or your voting registration is rejected.
So, cursive has a place in not only business, but official documents. But is also has a place in formal writing and correspondence too. If you hand wrote a formal invitation to someone for a formal event, wouldn't you use cursive?
At some point printing only begins to come off like a first grader wrote the note.
It may only for some come down to style, but couldn't the same be said about language too? A person may be able to be understood who speaks only in Ebonics, but at some level, and in professional situations, that person just ends up sounding like an ignorant fool. So, unless coming off like an ignorant fool is important to people, how hard is it to master cursive? Pride is a necessary element to success.
Why do we use forks and knives to eat with, when clearly we could just sit around on the ground eating with our hands?
When is the last time I read the 1850 census? Yesterday.When was the last time you read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution in it's original handwriting?
Typing is faster than printing or cursive handwriting for me.
Why?Both are letters, both should be able to be read and understood.
Why?
Cursive is obsolete.
Nobody feels it is too hard to learn. You just made that up.Obsolete? Strange term to use.
I find it laughable that there are people who feel cursive it too hard to learn, and hard to read. These must be people who have trouble figuring out the instructions on a box of sugary breakfast cereal.
Nobody feels it is too hard to learn. You just made that up.
That isnt the issue. The term obsolete fits perfectly.
Cursive is obsolete in the age of digital communication. Just a fact.
Why learn something that is obsolete?
Should we all teach our kids to drive a horse and buggy as well as a car when they are in their teens?
You don't see cursive around either.I don't see many buggies around unless I am in Amish country.
I was with you until this. It's not true. My granddaughter's very white suburban school stopped teaching cursive over ten years ago. It's not about race.Not teaching cursive has anything to do with it being obsolete. It is due to political pressure to give mainly Black urban students a much easier path in education because they are not able to compete against Asian and White students. So, today schools are trying to remove things which they feel only further puts many urban Black kids at a disadvantage, like removing math, or not demanding proper spelling and grammar to pass a course of elementary study. That is what this is about, that and wanting more time in class for other social indoctrination.
No reason kids can't learn both.You don't see cursive around either.
No one writes with quill pens anymore.
Knowing how to type on a keyboard, and print with a ball point, is what is necessary these days.......not driving a horse and buggy or writing with a quill pen.
Right. No reason kids can't learn to drive a horse and buggy and an automobile.......and learn to become a blacksmith and a computer programmer.No reason kids can't learn both.
Plus. I don't know if you have ever taught kids, but they are brilliant, and the first thing they will ask you is why? Why does cursive matter? You can't give them a good answer, and lying will destroy your credibility.they can see through that.No reason kids can't learn both.
Cursive is not the equivalent of driving a horse and buggy. It has been the predominant form of writing for hundreds of years, and we still need to decipher it, even if we don't use it as much. Printing is slow. No one prints notes and comments. They write. It's faster.Right. No reason kids can't learn to drive a horse and buggy and an automobile.......and learn to become a blacksmith and a computer programmer.
But with only so many hours in the day we have to prioritize sometimes.
Do kids take all their notes on their laptops now? No notebooks divided into sections and filled with college lined paper? I still see those things donated and sold as school supplies. If kids did ask, I would assure them it's faster and we could even have a race about it to prove it.Plus. I don't know if you have ever taught kids, but they are brilliant, and the first thing they will ask you is why? Why does cursive matter? You can't give them a good answer, and lying will destroy your credibility.they can see through that.
It might work as an elective, otherwise it is wholly obsolete.
I have always printed. But that is neither here nor there.Cursive is not the equivalent of driving a horse and buggy. It has been the predominant form of writing for hundreds of years, and we still need to decipher it, even if we don't use it as much. Printing is slow. No one prints notes and comments. They write. It's faster.
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