Cursive Should Be Taught

Cursive in school. It is a fond memory that is shared with almost all generations learning to write the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” in cursive. It brings me joy to read old letter between my great grandma and Grandpa, or read the beautiful penmanship of the side notes that my ancestors had written in our family bible. Sadly today’s generation may never get to share this memory or experience this sentimental feeling, because cursive is being taken out of today’s curriculum. The CNN article” Cursive vs. typing: Which should schools teach?” written by Rachel Rodriguez, gives an insight to the touchy subject on weather cursive should be taught in schools. In the United States forty out of fifty states have taken on the Common Core curriculum, which rules out the need of cursive writing in the public school classroom. “According to its mission statement, Common Core aims to teach skills that are "robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers." In Common Core, the time formerly devoted to teaching
That public school are teaching skills such as typing and other digital skills, along with normal handwriting that the schools feel as if they cannot forfeit the time to teach cursive. It is also the fact that students do not need cursive as much now as they did in the past. On CNN iReport, people were asked to share samples of their handwriting. Of the 268 submissions received, 149 (55%) were printed, 75 were in cursive, and 44 were a combination of the two. Many of the submissions that were in cursive came from adults who said they'd switched because it was faster for taking notes in high school or college. But for today’s students, it's usually faster and often a lot neater to take notes on a laptop or a tablet, therefor it does not matter how fast cursive is.