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10 Reasons To Teach Cursive Handwriting.

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Should You Teach Cursive Handwriting To Your Kids?

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Should Cursive Writing Be Taught In Schools?

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Should Cursive Writing Be Taught In All Schools?

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The 4 Worst Arguments For Teaching Cursive In Schools.

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American schools are slowly phasing out cursive handwriting, which is an unambiguously good move. Cursive is an archaic form of communication-one best left to history.

Let's take a look at some common arguments for teaching cursive in schools, and why they don't hold up.

Note: In February 2015, former author Justin Pot wrote an opinion article titled Cursive Writing Is Obsolete; Schools Should Teach Programming Instead. Then, in August 2015, he wrote this follow-up article to respond to some of the most common arguments.

The article needed an update, so we've brought it up to modern standards. While the author performing the update agrees with the sentiment that cursive writing is not worth teaching in schools today, we've preserved as much of the content and tone of Justin's original article as possible.

Defining Cursive Writing

To be clear, when we talk about "cursive handwriting" we speak mostly of the Palmer Method, a simplified form of script popularized in the early 20th century. It was designed specifically with speed in mind (in part to better compete with typewriters).

This kind of writing is, in our humble opinion:

Slower than typing.

Harder to learn and read than print handwriting.

Ugly when compared to more stylized scripts.

There's literally no reason for schools to teach the Palmer Method, outside of nostalgia. While we feel that cursive should not be taught in schools, we want to respond to the other side who thinks cursive is far from pointless.

Many Made Good Arguments in the Comments

Plenty of educators agreed with some of the original premise and critiqued the finer points. We welcome these conversations.

We can concede some of the arguments for why teaching cursive writing makes sense. For example:

Feel free to disagree with us on these or other reasoned points-we invite the conversation. But what we won't invite is any variation of the following arguments, which are pretty much complete gibberish.

There is a sense of accomplishment that comes with learning cursive.
While this is true, we think teaching a beautiful, pre-Palmer script in art class is a better way for kids to get that feeling. Let's stop pretending this is a practical skill.

Being able to read old letters from relatives is extremely valuable.
Of course, but you can learn to read documents like this without spending dozens of hours learning to write an obsolete script yourself. It's still English, even if it takes a little longer to decipher.

1. Kids Will Be Cut Off From History!

A number of people claimed that not teaching cursive cuts people off from their history. The typical comment goes like this:

Some went a little bit further, submitting speculative fiction for our consideration:

Ridiculous as this might seem, there is a certain logic here. Learning to write cursive means you can also read it, meaning you can better understand documents like this:

You probably know this as the original version of the Declaration of Independence, right? Surprise: that's not what most people read at the time. Most historians agree that this engrossed copy of the declaration was signed in August of 1776, a month after the document was famously ratified on July 4th, 1776.

The first published copies of the document, known as the Dunlap broadsides, looked like this:

That's right: in July of 1776, Congress approved the original Declaration and people immediately started reading it in print. This shouldn't be surprising; the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, over three hundred years after Gutenberg's printing press.

Kids not taught cursive would have no trouble reading this. If you want to argue that Americans in July of 1776 were less connected to history than someone who read a cursive version later on, we don't know what to say to you. The fact is that printed copies of America's founding documents are widely available today, just as they were in the 1700s-in many cases before the handwritten "originals" we know today.

In addition, none of these documents were written using the hideous Palmer Method, which wasn't popularized until the early 20th century. Go ahead and dig through some old newspapers, and you'll see the difference.

One does not need to learn cursive in order to read America's founding documents. It wasn't the case in the 1700s and certainly is not now. Consider that most people alive today cannot read religious texts or other historical documents in their original languages, either.

2. When the Apocalypse Comes, We'll Need It!

Some of the silliest comments revolved around what would happen if someone took out the electrical grid, such as this one:

The obvious counters for this argument are as follows:

3. Kids Need to Have a Signature!

One subject came up again and again: everyone in today's society needs to have a signature.

This seems like a good point, but we don't think it holds up. Here are some of the reasons why:

4. Technology Is Destroying Something Real

Print handwriting works just fine without electricity.

Assuming we're going to make surviving post-apocalyptic scenarios part of the curriculum, we should probably prioritize trapping, fishing, farming, and log cabin construction over letters with loops.

A number of comments made nostalgic arguments, saying that something real is being lost in this transition. This one, left under an article on Justin Pot's personal website, represents this argument best:

We respect what this person has said, but think these arguments miss a key point. Comments like this imply that cursive handwriting is some innate part of being human, but it isn't. It's an invention.

Cursive writing is a technology.

There's nothing natural about handwriting: it's a tool that we used for a particular period of time to communicate. Today people are using it less and less because they've deemed the alternatives as better.

In a sense, that's too bad-something is lost every time a technology is replaced. The compass meant fewer people learned how to navigate using the stars, while GPS has resulted in fewer people knowing how to use a compass.

But this doesn't mean we should give up on the GPS, or teach everyone how to navigate by the stars. Some people will pursue this knowledge for fun, or because it's been passed down by their family, but mandating everyone learns it just isn't realistic.

The fact that people use cursive writing less often today isn't because schools have stopped teaching it. The opposite is true: schools aren't teaching cursive because students don't use that skill later in life. Many haven't been for decades.

Ours isn't the activist argument. The other side wants to keep something irrelevant in the school systems out of nostalgia, while that time could be used for teaching something productive. We're not the one who needs to leave well enough alone.

But hey, maybe we're just lazy and uncoordinated.

Better Uses of Time Than Teaching Cursive Writing

We close with a few ideas on what students could learn that's a more productive use of time than antiquated cursive writing. While some schools may teach the following, they're not as ingrained in the schooling system as cursive writing has been:

Should Cursive Still Be Taught in Schools?

Progress takes place over centuries, meaning something that seems like part of the natural order when you're a kid was alien to prior generations.

The Palmer Method was harshly criticized and resisted in its early days, but its speed meant it ultimately won out over better-looking scripts. Over one hundred years later, this method is on the way out, because the alternatives are better.

Making predictions about technology is impossible, but so is trying to prevent an obsolete technology from sticking around. And that's exactly what anyone trying to keep cursive handwriting in the school curriculum is trying to do. Why dedicate so much time to something most people barely use anymore? You'd be hard-pressed to find a job interviewer who finds handwriting at all relevant.

But this, of course, is our opinion. We'd like to hear yours too. And if this has inspired a drive to return to cursive for you, check out the best resources to improve your handwriting How to Improve Your Handwriting: 8 Resources for Better Penmanship Believe it or not, legible handwriting is still important today. Start practicing your handwriting today! Read More .

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Computer programming. The ubiquitous nature of computers today means that learning a bit about how to program them is extremely useful. Learning to code also teaches logical thinking.

Civics. A 2019 study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 22% of sampled Americans cannot name a single branch of the government. This is, frankly, pathetic-any country would do well to educate its citizens on how the government actually works.

Personal finance. Many kids graduate from school not understanding basic financial principles, like how interest rates work or how to save for retirement. WalletHub found that some 10 percent of people think it's worth going into debt for a new iPhone. Surely learning to manage money, which is something you use every day, is more important than writing letters in a certain style.

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American schools are slowly phasing out cursive handwriting, which is an unambiguously good move. Cursive is an archaic form of communication-one best left to history. Let's take a look at some common arguments for teaching cursive in schools, and why they don't hold up.

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A 10-year-old cursive champ makes an argument in its favor. Is he convincing?

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Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer Be Taught In Schools Because It's A Big, Old Waste Of Time.

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Advocates for learning cursive (including Idaho representative Linden Bateman, 72) argue that "more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard."

Bateman continues, "The fluid motion employed when writing script enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine motor skills, in turn promoting reading, writing and cognition skills."

And if that's the reasons schools taught cursive, sure, fine. That's great. Also, there are plenty of other ways that kids can develop hand-eye coordination that doesn't involve spending a year of their prime development time learning a new alphabet.

But Bateman also argues that forgoing cursive may have much more consequential results: He argues we "will lose the ability to interpret valuable cultural resources-historical documents, ancestors' letters and journals, handwritten scholarship - if they can't read cursive."

"The Constitution of the United States is written in cursive. Think about that," Bateman said.

The Constitution of the United States is also available online, typed out. Not in cursive. Soooooo...We're probably good.

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Advocates for learning cursive (including Idaho representative Linden Bateman, 72) argue that "more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard." Bateman continues, "The fluid motion employed when writing script enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine motor skills, in turn promoting reading, writing and cognition skills."

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Why We Should Teach Cursive Writing To All Kids.

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When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secretary's signature, after all, was going to appear on US currency.

Lew, a New Yorker, was a city public-school student. And now the school system that produced him is hoping to iron out that particular wrinkle for any future potential Treasury secretary: New York is bringing back cursive instruction.

Thanks to our education system, few Americans are learning cursive, and thus, are unable to legibly sign their own names. As the federal government has become more involved in the day-to-day workings of the American classroom, a focus on test prep has become teachers' main objective. That means useful skills that fall outside the testing pattern often are neglected.

Which is what makes a decision last week from the New York City Department of Education so refreshing. When federal education standards called Common Core were adopted by the city, penmanship classes were dropped. But the current instructional handbook includes a manual for teaching cursive, and according to NBC4, many schools have already begun to implement cursive instruction.

They should be cheered for it - even if they don't grasp just why it's so important.

In a statement last week, Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island assemblywoman who pushed for the change, said the reason to add cursive was so that students would "know how to write a signature of their own to identify themselves, and have the ability to sign a legal document, check or voter-registration form."

But this policy change is actually more beneficial for the students than school officials appear to realize. Learning how to write cursive isn't just useful for its own sake - as valuable as it is to be able to sign one's own name.

As the city Department of Education rightly pointed out, "evidence reveals an advantage for handwriting using pen and paper over keyboarding for students in grades 2 to 6 for amount written, rate of word writing, and number of ideas expressed."

In other words: Kids were better at processing information when doing so by handwriting as opposed to typing.

In addition, scientific research (and common sense) indicates learning how to write cursive helps the development of motor skills. Writing for Psychology Today, Dr. William Klemm explains, "The benefits to brain development are similar to what you get with learning to play a musical instrument."

These benefits apply to writing more generally and cursive specifically, according to Klemm.

That's because in "cursive writing, compared to printing . . . the movement tasks are more demanding, the letters are less stereotypical and the visual-recognition requirements create a broader repertoire of letter representation."

Yes, kids could use a computer and type more legibly than they can write. But the end product is just as important as the lesson itself. Test prep and academic pressure are increasingly crowding out previously essential classes like music, art and physical education. Recess has been shortened considerably for children compared to their parents' generation, as has instruction in subjects not considered "core curriculum."

There's a larger point here: Cursive writing is far from an exception. Teachers and school administrators have learned both through studies and their own experience that, for example, the erosion of recess time has negative effects on student behavior and performance, never mind happiness. Activities tossed overboard for their perceived frivolity turned out to have a point.

Reverting to older methods of education isn't the "hipsterization" of the classroom. Instead, it's educators merely casting off prior poorly researched and executed trends in education.

The New York City Department of Education might have taken only a small step in that reversion with its decision to restart cursive instruction, but parents should cheer it nonetheless. Perhaps it's the beginning of a curriculum counterrevolution that will restore a sense of balance to children's education.

And if not, well - at least future Treasury secretaries from New York will be able to sign our currency with pride.
Bethany Mandel, a stay-at-home mom, is a senior contributor to The Federalist.

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When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secretary's signature, after all, was going to appear on US currency. Lew, a New Yorker, was a city public-school student.