When I was young in my school they taught every child cursive. I used to write everything in cursive unless I was told I had to write print. I don't write in cursive like I used to but I'm glad I got a chance to learn it.
this is such an insane argument to me lmao probably simply cuz i hvnt heard of grown adults and teens not being able to read cursive or it being an elective at school?? in india, we're taught print letters when we're in lower kindergarten(age 3,4) and cursive in upper kindergarten(age 5). teachers insisted on us writing in cursive in all our notebooks till grade 2 compulsorily . after that age it wasnt forced and students were allowed to gravitate towards whichever they were more comfortable in but cursive was always more appreciated .in reality, most people end up writing in a hybrid sort of script, but most of it is still cursive.
Cursive when youve forced yourself to get used to it, is immensely easier and faster in the long run. When your a college student with so much note taking to do but your professor never gives the material, its a saving grace.
Cursive is the only writing I write in. I rarely use print. But just to think our children will not be able to read our ancestors and government documents that’s in cursive is sad.
I was actually taught how to write cursive writing in 2 grade. However by late 3rd grade I switched schools and I stopped learning how to write cursive. It was very fun though lol
Third grade was when l was taught and l hated it. The only thing l use it for is my signature which is mostly scribbles anyway minus the first letter on each name anyway.
It should be a choice imo. I prefer print it's easier to read/write. If cursive is that important schools should first start teaching cursive in kindergarten alongside print and then continue that form of writing all through out school. I was only taught cursive in the third grade and never used it in or out of school after that. Still a nice skill to learn regardless.
Signatures aren’t required to be cursive duck they don’t even have to be words The point of a signature is to signify it’s you who signed something In fact cursive is probably a terrible system for them because cursive writing is well known to drift heavily
I was taught cursive in third grade for 2 weeks we didn't even get through half the letters. Now I'm in 9th grade, and they asked us to sign our name in cursive and nobody knew how to do it besides a few students. Luckily, I knew how to sign my name because it's just a simple 5 letters. Cursive seems really pretty, my friends and I all want to learn it, yet they don't teach it in schools. It's an important skill to have, and it's a whole lot more important than knowing how to find the circumference of a circle or the difference between meiosis and mitosis.
This comment really transported me back to high school haha. Take advantage of your education while you can. Handwriting was a fun thing for many of us to experiment with in school.
Cursive is only valuable for a signature. Neat and legible print would be a more valuable push rather than trying to keep a useless style that accomplishes the same thing just to look "fancy".
Without the ability to read cursive you can’t read some of the most valuable documents of thus country. If you can’t read the constitution or the bill of rights then why would officials follow them. It’s not like they would lie about what is in it.
Bingo! That's my argument as well. I think it's imperative that future generations be able to read our founding documents in their original form and not rely on print "translations."
Truth be told, in Europe and Latin America, all important documents need to be signed by hand, we never saw it as art or aesthetics, but as something standard. It's sad to see the US abolishing Teaching cursive writing. In addition to formal jobs in these countries (doctor, lawyer, judge), the use of cursive for important documents is mandatory.
I was taught cursive writing in grade 5. It was really easy and fun. The following year I was forced to stop because no one else could read my writing. Even though it was the same from the year before. The teacher was no different. She couldn't read my cursive any more, but she was able to read this one students writing that looked like crap. He held his writing instrument with his fist.
I think it was 2nd, or 3nd grade for cursive. I taught myself German cursive in college, and I struggle with cryllic cursive to this day. It used to be a right of passage. I wrote a note in cursive to the next shift, last job. The two guy's 20-30 years younger than I, looked at me like I was writing in Martian. So what I did was set up a text messaging system on the local computer. Always a way to work around a problem, I hate touch screening.
I learned cursive in grammar school in the 1960's. It's so much faster than printing. Before retiring there were individuals in my agency that didn't now how to read cursive. Very sad.
How sad! I remember having to write for hours in them calligraphy books to perfect the letters, it felt so good in the brain. I honestly feel sad kids aren’t being taught cursive ;( and how do they sign their names now?
@@jmurray1110It doesn't happen often in your country, in the rest of the world especially in Europe and Latin America and Russia, the standard handwriting to teach in schools is cursive. And we only accept formal documents, signatures, and some jobs, if they have cursive writing. This is sad for the USA
@@ViniciusConrado-lc3zp I’m from Europe and where I am everything is typed because that’s the most utilitarian option If you rely on cursive for documents then you have only yourselves to blame for miscommunication
@@jmurray1110 My dear European brother, I say this, but don't lose cursive writing, my college work, when not typed, is done by hand, the manuscript makes me exercise my brain and learn Faster, I learned and wrote in cursive, but we read everything in capital letters and that was never an impediment, much less to eliminate it, nowadays the standard handwriting in Brazil is cursive, And not many things are accepted without these words. You cannot be illiterate in any alphabet of the same language.
When is the last time you used Algebra for balancing your checkbook? Press math that you don't use daily, but handwriting is used all your life! Handwriting should never have been dropped.
The only thing I ever use handwriting for these days is signing a receipt. There are a hundred better things that children could be taught with the time wasted on cursive.
A discussion that is going on in Germany, too. But I regard cursive writing as fundamental value. According to such discussion learning to type with 10 fingers will become a discussion, too, won't it? Reason, the majority is only thumb-typing these days. We started with cursive writing at school, but in the 50s. These days it could be added later as an Art and a beautiful subject.
@@jakeySquarre It depends on the country tbh. I am Indian and we exclusively use cursive over here, the block print style of writing is often considered really childish and unprofessional. When I came to the US for college I was kinda surprised to see college kids writing in comic sans :P
@@TheMartian11 I also live in India. I find block print style of writing to be easier and way more clean compared to cursive. With regards to considering it to be childish and unprofessional, I guess its one's prejudice and not facts.
Wouldn't it be better anyway to teach children cursive in kindergarten at the exact same time as print? And, don't give me that, "But, there's not enough time; the children can only handle so much knowledge throughout the day" excuse. Japan teaches kids Hiragana, and Katakana (not including Kanji), and each of them have 46 characters. 46+46=92 26+26=52 It makes America look bad if the children can only read in one way, and Japan does two. Also, Russia prefers to write in cursive, and it's beautiful. It may not be necessary in America, but maybe this way children can be a bit more proper. And, if you want them to actually understand The Declaration of Independence, teach them the same style, like Spencerian; not the newer lazy ones, like Handwriting Without Tears, or New American Cursive.
I'm 45 years old and the scenario you put forth is exactly the way I was taught both printing and cursive; in early education. Simultaneously. Though I was never that good at cursive, (and switched to mostly print by high school), and now my cursive is a mix of print and script style when I write a letter to someone or make a quick grocery list or whatever, but, at least I have no trouble reading and understanding things written in cursive. This is especially beneficial to anyone interested in studying history including old written documents and such. Imagine you're interested in your family tree and end up tracking down some old letters or personal journals written by a long deceased member of your family; chances are they'd have written in cursive and wouldn't it be nice not to have to rely on someone else to tell you what was written and be able to just read them yourself? Who knows what long lost juicy family secrets you just might unearth? (Just a hypothetical speculation but, hey, it could happen and its another good reason for keeping the art of cursive alive.) At the very least we teach kids to read cursive!
YES! I taught in the military and found some could not even read what they wrote, cursive or block. Signatures of people born in the 60's,70's and after are mostly unreadable to actually identify who se name it is. There is too much relying on computers and printers. Granted, most people developed heir own style bu, it should still be readable.
I don't believe this style of writing is necessary at all. In fact, it doesn't really have any benefits to it. In today's world, most people don't even write in cursive (or in 'script' as some people refere to it) and documents and things in that nature, usually aren't written in that style either. The way I look at it, cursive/script writing should be more of personal choice. (Or a hobby) If YOU wish to use it, then that's fine but I *REALLY* don't think it should be enforced on a school curiculum. Also take in the consideration that some kids completely struggle with this style of writing. I know I did when I was a kid and I'm not ashamed to admit that. As long as kids learn how to write in a legible fashion, that's all that should matter.
@@royswearing1946 because it's not really important. It was important when people used to spend all day writing letters, now I can easily go weeks without writing anything.
Agree 100% it takes up much needed space in a child's curriculum. We need more tech subjects since that's where most of the jobs are. The people arguing to keep cursive are barely able to use their own phones and computers.
so your 12 year old knows a practical skill that he will use for the rest of his personal and professional life but doesn't know a completely superfluous skill that is useful for exactly nothing. sounds like hes got a leg up in the world.
What kinda stupid question is this? Of course they should. Cursive writing is still a very fundamental thing today that children should know about and know how to read.
You can teach someone to write in cursive in under a week. Kids don't even NEED to be taught to type in most cases because they learn how to do that at home. This is ALL idiotic.
@@mayatuck At my graduate school as well as undergrad. Isenberg and Emerson respectively, the latter of which was primarily a rhetoric and communication school. You can stop waiting now. :-)
I feel like students should be taught how to write quickly and legibly. In reality, most people end up writing in a hybrid sort of script. Why not just train kids to write so that how they write is quick is easy to read? In their own way.
What Next? Eradicate teaching print/block penmanship. I guess everyone has forgotten the importance of cursive and block penmanship is to brain development 😡
The purpose of cursive is to write fast, not taking pen off paper, legible or not except to the one doing the writing. People didn't know it had an effect on brain development until hundreds of years later...
Unpopular opinion this isn’t necessary I was taught it when I was in school and actually apart from signatures and a occasional letter from a grandparent I’ve never been confronted with a situation where it was of great importance to know cursive
@@mayatuck Except in the 30 years since I left middle school Ive never once used cursive. Never. I've forgotten how so I dont know when its supposed to come in useful.
Why not stop teaching how to write overall? We can just type! Why not stop teaching how to read as well! We can have audiobooks! Why not teach how to calculate? We can use calculators! This is a joke of course but considering where the world is heading I wouldn't be surprised if it actually happened.
Nothing is stopping you from teaching your kids and their schoolmates how to write in cursive if the schools are not teaching it. In fact this applies to anything. You can take 15-30 minutes out of your day to teach your own kids any subject or skill. Only one stopping you is yourself.
I hated learning cursive. And once I was no longer forced to write anything in cursive I stopped. And Ive never used it since. I've forgotten how to write cursive and now I just remember the torment and frustration of handwriting class and how much I viscerally hated it.
True, but it's also harder to read, especially if you don't have good handwriting. Faster writing is barely useful in a world where no one really writes anything anymore.
As a teacher I can tell you NOBODY likes to decipher cursive, it really has no place in today and we should let it die... Cursive is not that much of a time saver to write, and it takes forever sometimes to read, In an age where typing is a way more valuable skill just let it die. besides signatures, what is cursive good for? Answer = pissing off the reader, and nothing more.
I think it would be more useful to teach a foreign language at a young age, so our youth would be bilingual. Spanish is ideal and practical for American kids.
It’s a waste of time. 1- They should provide some specific classes to teach children how to sign their names. 2- If someone needs to read old documents e.g. the constitution, they should provide some specific classes to teach teens how to read and understand cursive letters. You can write letters, notes, documents, and so on, using block letters. Speed up the whole process and progress.
No. It is unnecessary and the waste of time. It wasn't needed 25 years ago when they taught me and even less so now. I very rarely write anything and when l do print works fine.
Lol. Not needed. Tell me what time a clock reads..... without digital. Why matter? Maybe Because what happens if the grid gets attacked or just goes down for awhile?
If the grid goes down, a much more useful skill would be learning how to start a fire with twigs. Not a likely scenario I admit, but since you brought it up...
Interesting and down below it is a good skill to learn. There are pros and cons. Cons- I'm 39 years old now and as far as I seen up to today, its not used and discouraged. Thats really the only con. Pros- I can expand creativity. Its not a second language but can be impressive providing if it is legible. It is also an "I can do it" contributor to young self esteem. Is it a skill needed? No withe exception of signing documents and you social security card... Woops. Just spilled it for them. Your signature is unique per person and no one's signature is the same unless you are a con artist. So I guess it is needed to a certain extent.
Cursive was the biggest waste of time. My handwriting always sucked and the day I learned to touch type gave me a life skill that I now use everyday at work and home. I learned this skill in 1977 and I really wish that the time wasted on cursive could have focused on spelling and math skills.
@@stevebri9161 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔦𝔯. Seriously the BIGGEST elephant in the room with cursive are non-standard fonts you will run into (as everyone will be writing slightly differently) Plus a reader's visual interpretation of your characters might be VERY different than what you intended. Is this a lower case l or uppercase I or the number 1 or maybe you wrote a | symbol? God help you if you're trying to write programing or other DATA related communication! No one ever taught me how useful it was to put a slash thought the number Zero 0 so as not to confuse it with the capital O My last name happens to be "Settle" My parents taught me to sign my name and cross the "tt" together in one stroke. Not good. years later I got mail addressed to a "Mr. Sehle" You can bet I PRINT my name clearly thank you very much!
Bingo. As a college graduate, cursive will never help you beyond elementary and middle school, because it is never used, and it's only used in elementary and middle school for the sake of doing it. It serves no practical purpose.
My goodness, did you even proofread your comment before posting it? Irony is someone talking about how other people should learn to write when they themselves clearly don't know how.
Great let teach a totally and completely useless tool. There are enough things kids need to learn, but hey as long as we are going to teach cursive we should teach them to read and write Latin and of course how to shoe a horse and I would not want to leave out farming.
I write cursing, know Latin (and Greek) and can shoe a horse. My mom says knowledge doesn't take space, and it is true. Kids should have more options, more subjects to learn, not less. And cursive is not useless, I can read old documents and write fastly, can your kids or grandkids do so?
Maybe I am jaded but my left index finger has an unusual bend in it. That bend was created by Sister Marie and her yardstick over the course of a couple years. It only ended when my pediatrician was looking at x rays if my fingers and asking why there were so many breaks. When I explained that the Sister and I did not see eye to eye. This inability of our led to my finders being beat with her yardstick. When he threatened my parents and my catholic school there was change. Those years were not a total waste. I Learned if you did repent for your sins you went to hell for eternity and the Sister had a way of making eternity really sound like something. She would ask us how long is eternity and the class would yell forever. Then her horror movie voice would start " remember children that if there was a dove and it flew between the earth and the moon every 100 years and as it past the earth it wing lightly brushed dust away from the earth. When that dove had completely warn the earth away eternity would not have even begun.
I don't know how things are in your country but here in Russia everyone writes in cursive... German is my first foreign language at school, and we were taught to write in cursive. As I had started to learn English, I was surprised because our teacher demanded us to 'type', but cursive is much faster! I can't get it, how'd you read beautiful cursive fonts on the Internet?
It's unnecessary, I've learned it but rarely ever use it. I'm an artist and I get it that it's a fancier way to write. It just takes up so much of the curriculum. We should be arguing more about dropping many other unnecessary subjects, to make room for more tech subjects. The world is moving forwards not backwards. Let's not set our children up to fail by keeping primitive subjects in schools. The main people arguing to keep cursive are those barely able to use their computer or phone.
Do you realize there right now the majority of the world is absolutely dependent to an extent on the enter net and/or pure computer? Scary scenario that I might even think of writing about would be something Simple which is if the Internet and any sort of wireless information gets whacked. Simple which is if the Internet and any sort of wireless information gets Whacked. Start with simples. If the grid goes down can you go to the bank and get money ? Big suggestion would be keep a lot of money and safe places that are absolute Li easily obtainable without any sort of electronic information necessary.
As a 44 year old with a 4-year degree and working on a Master's degree, I can't thinkof a more useless skill. I was taught cursive writing in 3rd grade - I never once had to use it in high school or college. We shouldn't be teaching children an obsolete skill they will never use.
Writing is not a useless skill. It is a symbol of personal expression and grace. A lovely handwritten card gives such meaning and warmth to the recipient. It may not be mandatory in today's world but it surely is NOT and will never be obsolete nor will it ever be useless.
@@angelamwatts You can write a meaningful letter in print, or even type it. I never said writing was useless. Do you think anyone could get through even one semester of college without being able to write? I said cursive was useless, and I stand by that. Most people's cursive handwriting is illegible to anyone but themselves. If you want to write a pretty, artsy, handwritten letter - then learn calligraphy, it's not the same as cursive, should be legible to anyone if you do it correctly, and is more of an art form than cursive has ever been. Cursive wasn't meant to be artistic. It was literally created so people could write with feather quil pens or other pens that were dipped in an inkwell, without making a mess. Once the ballpoint pen was invented, cursive became irrelevant. Teaching it to school children is an obnoxious waste of their time, because they'll never need to use it the rest of their life.
@@jasonlarsen4945 If you can read words then you can read cursive. Writing and reading is an important skill. I wasn't aware that people in the present day are being taught to write in cursive using feather pens but whatever.
@@angelamwatts They aren't being taught to write cursive using feather pens nowadays, which is why cursive is irrelevant nowadays - because the primary reason it was created is now irrelevant. If anyone who can read writing can read cursive, than you just took away the only remaining argument to keep it. If anyone can read it without knowing how to write it, than the argument that it needs to be taught so people can read old documents goes out the window. Thank you for making my point for me.
@@mayatuck I wasn’t being serious though there is a whiff of potential classism in forcing people to write in a way designed for an antiquated tool because that’s just what was done back then
I learned it too and it was an utter waste of time. I don't remember the last time I was forced to use cursive, but it's been 30 years now and I haven't used it since elementary or middle school.
@@jasonlarsen4945 Over rated or not I don’t mind writing my name in cursive for signatures. Mind you I was in a third grade the last time they tried teaching us cursive. I remember them telling us that it would be useful and important when we’re adults in the real world. Oh how wrong they were.
They dint need this what's wrong with just writing a normal word the normal fucking way And u can't understand cursive writing because it's just scribbling in my opinion
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If they don't how will kids sign their signature when they get older I guess they'll print their name where it says signature, this really has to be one of those liberal ideas smh .
It's much safer to write your signature as a unique scribble than using an easily copied font. If your signature is just your name, then anyone who knows your name can forge it.
The reason they stopped teaching it because everybody used phones or some form of computer to where you don't really write that much no more especially in jobs where somebody else got an input your information into the computer one room letter can cost money for the company or mess up a computer software code for project that's why cursive is not needing no more
When I was young in my school they taught every child cursive. I used to write everything in cursive unless I was told I had to write print. I don't write in cursive like I used to but I'm glad I got a chance to learn it.
this is such an insane argument to me lmao probably simply cuz i hvnt heard of grown adults and teens not being able to read cursive or it being an elective at school?? in india, we're taught print letters when we're in lower kindergarten(age 3,4) and cursive in upper kindergarten(age 5). teachers insisted on us writing in cursive in all our notebooks till grade 2 compulsorily . after that age it wasnt forced and students were allowed to gravitate towards whichever they were more comfortable in but cursive was always more appreciated .in reality, most people end up writing in a hybrid sort of script, but most of it is still cursive.
Cursive when youve forced yourself to get used to it, is immensely easier and faster in the long run. When your a college student with so much note taking to do but your professor never gives the material, its a saving grace.
A keyboard is exponentially faster than writing by hand. The days of cursive were numbered with the invention of the type writer.
Cursive is the only writing I write in. I rarely use print. But just to think our children will not be able to read our ancestors and government documents that’s in cursive is sad.
Exactly! I wonder if that was taken into consideration? I think it’s by design.
I was actually taught how to write cursive writing in 2 grade. However by late 3rd grade I switched schools and I stopped learning how to write cursive.
It was very fun though lol
Third grade was when l was taught and l hated it. The only thing l use it for is my signature which is mostly scribbles anyway minus the first letter on each name anyway.
It should be a choice imo. I prefer print it's easier to read/write. If cursive is that important schools should first start teaching cursive in kindergarten alongside print and then continue that form of writing all through out school. I was only taught cursive in the third grade and never used it in or out of school after that. Still a nice skill to learn regardless.
In my opinion cursive is easier to write but harder to read
cursive is way easier to write. you dont have to lift your hand every letter but only ever word.
@@caesar7734 If the cursive is legible and you're used to reading it, it's faster to both write _&_ read.
Yes, let's create a generation of semi-illiterate people.
How can you sign your check if you don't learn cursive?
Just sign it lmao. Nobody said your signature has to be cursive
Signatures aren’t required to be cursive duck they don’t even have to be words
The point of a signature is to signify it’s you who signed something
In fact cursive is probably a terrible system for them because cursive writing is well known to drift heavily
I was taught cursive in third grade for 2 weeks we didn't even get through half the letters. Now I'm in 9th grade, and they asked us to sign our name in cursive and nobody knew how to do it besides a few students. Luckily, I knew how to sign my name because it's just a simple 5 letters. Cursive seems really pretty, my friends and I all want to learn it, yet they don't teach it in schools. It's an important skill to have, and it's a whole lot more important than knowing how to find the circumference of a circle or the difference between meiosis and mitosis.
Not that important
This comment really transported me back to high school haha. Take advantage of your education while you can. Handwriting was a fun thing for many of us to experiment with in school.
Cursive is only valuable for a signature. Neat and legible print would be a more valuable push rather than trying to keep a useless style that accomplishes the same thing just to look "fancy".
I agree with you 1000%
It's not neat it's messy as fuck
Fancy?? Lol.. yes it is.. but some are just not born with the brain power to read and write it.. 😒
That's a myth.
Without the ability to read cursive you can’t read some of the most valuable documents of thus country. If you can’t read the constitution or the bill of rights then why would officials follow them. It’s not like they would lie about what is in it.
Bingo! That's my argument as well. I think it's imperative that future generations be able to read our founding documents in their original form and not rely on print "translations."
THIS SYSTEM DOSENT WANT A SMART SOCIETY' THEY WANT AN IGNORANT GROUP OF PEOPLE, GO FIGURE ????
CANT READ OR WRITE CURSIVE. 😳
@@MrsSANDRALMOSLEYIII Cursive is literally just words but more mashed together and use more curves and o’s. Do you think people are that dumb?
wll it's a very, very good thing that pretty much every manuscript ever written practically has been transcribed into print.
Truth be told, in Europe and Latin America, all important documents need to be signed by hand, we never saw it as art or aesthetics, but as something standard. It's sad to see the US abolishing Teaching cursive writing. In addition to formal jobs in these countries (doctor, lawyer, judge), the use of cursive for important documents is mandatory.
Cursive is an art that hurts no one. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to read our constitution in the form it was forged?
All by design
Then make it optional
Because it sure as fuck hurt my ability to write
I was taught that in school. Good skill to learn
I was taught it as well. Never used it high school through college. I could have been taught something useful instead.
As someone who had to learn left handed the only thing I use it for is my signature
@me loves heat 🔥🥵 because ever since preschool people only thought I was scribbling with my right so I just played my strengths to get by
Not really it's just fancy writing completely useless
I was taught cursive writing in grade 5. It was really easy and fun. The following year I was forced to stop because no one else could read my writing. Even though it was the same from the year before. The teacher was no different.
She couldn't read my cursive any more, but she was able to read this one students writing that looked like crap. He held his writing instrument with his fist.
I think it was 2nd, or 3nd grade for cursive. I taught myself German cursive in college, and I struggle with cryllic cursive to this day. It used to be a right of passage. I wrote a note in cursive to the next shift, last job. The two guy's 20-30 years younger than I, looked at me like I was writing in Martian. So what I did was set up a text messaging system on the local computer. Always a way to work around a problem, I hate touch screening.
I learned cursive in grammar school in the 1960's. It's so much faster than printing. Before retiring there were individuals in my agency that didn't now how to read cursive. Very sad.
You're correct, but typing is taking over.
How sad! I remember having to write for hours in them calligraphy books to perfect the letters, it felt so good in the brain. I honestly feel sad kids aren’t being taught cursive ;( and how do they sign their names now?
How do they read history texts?
Typically we don’t because surprisingly it doesn’t come up all that often
@@jmurray1110It doesn't happen often in your country, in the rest of the world especially in Europe and Latin America and Russia, the standard handwriting to teach in schools is cursive. And we only accept formal documents, signatures, and some jobs, if they have cursive writing. This is sad for the USA
@@ViniciusConrado-lc3zp I’m from Europe and where I am everything is typed because that’s the most utilitarian option
If you rely on cursive for documents then you have only yourselves to blame for miscommunication
@@jmurray1110 My dear European brother, I say this, but don't lose cursive writing, my college work, when not typed, is done by hand, the manuscript makes me exercise my brain and learn Faster, I learned and wrote in cursive, but we read everything in capital letters and that was never an impediment, much less to eliminate it, nowadays the standard handwriting in Brazil is cursive, And not many things are accepted without these words. You cannot be illiterate in any alphabet of the same language.
When is the last time you used Algebra for balancing your checkbook? Press math that you don't use daily, but handwriting is used all your life! Handwriting should never have been dropped.
The only thing I ever use handwriting for these days is signing a receipt. There are a hundred better things that children could be taught with the time wasted on cursive.
A discussion that is going on in Germany, too. But I regard cursive writing as fundamental value. According to such discussion learning to type with 10 fingers will become a discussion, too, won't it? Reason, the majority is only thumb-typing these days. We started with cursive writing at school, but in the 50s. These days it could be added later as an Art and a beautiful subject.
I think home-row typing is more important than cursive. When have you used cursive outside of school?
@@jakeySquarre It depends on the country tbh. I am Indian and we exclusively use cursive over here, the block print style of writing is often considered really childish and unprofessional.
When I came to the US for college I was kinda surprised to see college kids writing in comic sans :P
@@TheMartian11 that’s actually pretty cool. I didn’t think about the whole world i guess i was wrong
@@TheMartian11 I also live in India. I find block print style of writing to be easier and way more clean compared to cursive. With regards to considering it to be childish and unprofessional, I guess its one's prejudice and not facts.
And to think that here in Brazil, we only use cursive when we write, only children use the print.
Cursive has been stopped so kids can not read the Declaration of Independence !
I agree!
Bingo
LOL DUDE... it's freely available to read in print. No one actually reads the literal declaration of independence on that old parchment.
In fact it will definitely just rot like every other manuscript cursive or not
Wouldn't it be better anyway to teach children cursive in kindergarten at the exact same time as print? And, don't give me that, "But, there's not enough time; the children can only handle so much knowledge throughout the day" excuse. Japan teaches kids Hiragana, and Katakana (not including Kanji), and each of them have 46 characters. 46+46=92 26+26=52 It makes America look bad if the children can only read in one way, and Japan does two. Also, Russia prefers to write in cursive, and it's beautiful. It may not be necessary in America, but maybe this way children can be a bit more proper. And, if you want them to actually understand The Declaration of Independence, teach them the same style, like Spencerian; not the newer lazy ones, like Handwriting Without Tears, or New American Cursive.
I'm 45 years old and the scenario you put forth is exactly the way I was taught both printing and cursive; in early education. Simultaneously. Though I was never that good at cursive, (and switched to mostly print by high school), and now my cursive is a mix of print and script style when I write a letter to someone or make a quick grocery list or whatever, but, at least I have no trouble reading and understanding things written in cursive. This is especially beneficial to anyone interested in studying history including old written documents and such. Imagine you're interested in your family tree and end up tracking down some old letters or personal journals written by a long deceased member of your family; chances are they'd have written in cursive and wouldn't it be nice not to have to rely on someone else to tell you what was written and be able to just read them yourself? Who knows what long lost juicy family secrets you just might unearth? (Just a hypothetical speculation but, hey, it could happen and its another good reason for keeping the art of cursive alive.)
At the very least we teach kids to read cursive!
YES! I taught in the military and found some could not even read what they wrote, cursive or block. Signatures of people born in the 60's,70's and after are mostly unreadable to actually identify who se name it is. There is too much relying on computers and printers. Granted, most people developed heir own style bu, it should still be readable.
I don't believe this style of writing is necessary at all. In fact, it doesn't really have any benefits to it. In today's world, most people don't even write in cursive (or in 'script' as some people refere to it) and documents and things in that nature, usually aren't written in that style either. The way I look at it, cursive/script writing should be more of personal choice. (Or a hobby) If YOU wish to use it, then that's fine but I *REALLY* don't think it should be enforced on a school curiculum. Also take in the consideration that some kids completely struggle with this style of writing. I know I did when I was a kid and I'm not ashamed to admit that. As long as kids learn how to write in a legible fashion, that's all that should matter.
But you survived and can write and sign your name. Why you don't want other children to achieve this skill.
@@royswearing1946 it teaches kids how to scribble more than write
Agree 100%
@@royswearing1946 because it's not really important. It was important when people used to spend all day writing letters, now I can easily go weeks without writing anything.
Agree 100% it takes up much needed space in a child's curriculum. We need more tech subjects since that's where most of the jobs are. The people arguing to keep cursive are barely able to use their own phones and computers.
My 12 year old can type almost 50 words per minute but can’t write in cursive.
Thats your fault. Lol good job
@@ZonaFit1985 The new generation needs modern skills rather than archaic skills
so your 12 year old knows a practical skill that he will use for the rest of his personal and professional life but doesn't know a completely superfluous skill that is useful for exactly nothing. sounds like hes got a leg up in the world.
Good. They'll be typing for the rest of their lives and will only ever need to call on script writing to sign their names and nothing besides
What kinda stupid question is this? Of course they should. Cursive writing is still a very fundamental thing today that children should know about and know how to read.
why? i mean what do you think it does for children?
@@aribakhan1239 exactly. Who cares if it’s a “fine art” what is it going to do to help the child with their life after graduation?
@@jakeySquarre wow
@@aribakhan1239 Well with that mind frame you might as well remove every subject from school aside from the liberal politics right?
It's a skill they'll never use beyond middle school, and for no other purpose then other than simply to do it.
Should we also teach the kids how to reink typewriters?
You can teach someone to write in cursive in under a week. Kids don't even NEED to be taught to type in most cases because they learn how to do that at home. This is ALL idiotic.
Cursive writing is important...
No
For what?
Its so unimportant that high school and college teachers often forbid their students from using it because nobody wants to read cursive.
@@derklebob8161 Forbid??? Really? Where is it "forbidden"? I'll wait.
@@mayatuck At my graduate school as well as undergrad. Isenberg and Emerson respectively, the latter of which was primarily a rhetoric and communication school. You can stop waiting now. :-)
I feel like students should be taught how to write quickly and legibly. In reality, most people end up writing in a hybrid sort of script. Why not just train kids to write so that how they write is quick is easy to read? In their own way.
What Next? Eradicate teaching print/block penmanship. I guess everyone has forgotten the importance of cursive and block penmanship is to brain development 😡
They don’t want you reading the constitution
The purpose of cursive is to write fast, not taking pen off paper, legible or not except to the one doing the writing.
People didn't know it had an effect on brain development until hundreds of years later...
Unpopular opinion this isn’t necessary I was taught it when I was in school and actually apart from signatures and a occasional letter from a grandparent I’ve never been confronted with a situation where it was of great importance to know cursive
Exactly. I was taught it too. Never used it in high school, or college, and I'm certainly not using it in grad school. Teach kids to type.
In the 80s, we learned print, cursive, and typing. All have their importance then and now.
@@mayatuck Except in the 30 years since I left middle school Ive never once used cursive. Never. I've forgotten how so I dont know when its supposed to come in useful.
Why not stop teaching how to write overall? We can just type! Why not stop teaching how to read as well! We can have audiobooks! Why not teach how to calculate? We can use calculators!
This is a joke of course but considering where the world is heading I wouldn't be surprised if it actually happened.
you still need to know how to calculate to use a calculator. The calculator just eliminates errors, and every mathematician ever uses calculators.
Nothing is stopping you from teaching your kids and their schoolmates how to write in cursive if the schools are not teaching it. In fact this applies to anything. You can take 15-30 minutes out of your day to teach your own kids any subject or skill. Only one stopping you is yourself.
I hated learning cursive. And once I was no longer forced to write anything in cursive I stopped. And Ive never used it since. I've forgotten how to write cursive and now I just remember the torment and frustration of handwriting class and how much I viscerally hated it.
Your Not thinking deep enough ok .
Yes. Writing cursive is faster and easier on the hand because you only have to lift your fingers/hand up for every word as opposed to every letter.
True, but it's also harder to read, especially if you don't have good handwriting. Faster writing is barely useful in a world where no one really writes anything anymore.
And short hand is even faster
Doesn’t mean it should be a mandatory subject and expected throughout the education system
@@jmurray1110 mandatory subject? They just taught it for like 2 years in elementary school mixed in with everything else lol
@@pinkchaos. For me it was mandatory
@@jmurray1110 yeah, for like 2 hours a week for 2 years in elementary school, it doesn’t take very long to learn cursive 🤦🏼♀️
As a teacher I can tell you NOBODY likes to decipher cursive, it really has no place in today and we should let it die... Cursive is not that much of a time saver to write, and it takes forever sometimes to read, In an age where typing is a way more valuable skill just let it die. besides signatures, what is cursive good for? Answer = pissing off the reader, and nothing more.
I guess my daughter's just won't be able to read any of my hand written notes if they don't even learn it 🙄😟
@me loves heat 🔥🥵 That is how grown ups communicate. That's why.
@@mayatuck Your "grown-up" reply would have had a lot more validity if you had written it in cursive rather than typed it.
dont feel bad. I "learned" cursive 20 years ago and have forgotten it. I cant read my mothers cursive notes to me either.
Some Gen Z voters in the 2024 election couldn't sign their name! So yes, cursive should be taught.
Yes we should if 100 percent of signatures in the workforce. You need it
Signatures don't need to be in cursive
BOSTON SHOULD BRING IT BACK!!
I don’t see the point. Print is more legible and easier for kids to learn. I don’t think it should be required
But print looks like shit
@@Spooky.Boogie.xj0461 but kids writing in cursive looks like it too
Cursive also looks like shit and is harder to read
😒 more time wasted in school. If it’s going to be put into place it should be for ALL states!
I think it would be more useful to teach a foreign language at a young age, so our youth would be bilingual. Spanish is ideal and practical for American kids.
Uh no.
YES ! It’s very important
Cursive writing opens parts of the brain that printing and typing do not.
Well first of all teach them to hold a pencil.
That guy reporters hot
Yes, our constitution is written in cursive.
LOL why would that matter?
I learned cursive in 3rd grade and haven’t used it for shit.
Nobody does, unless they use it to write a grocery list for themselves, knowing that nobody else would be able to read it.
It’s a waste of time.
1- They should provide some specific classes to teach children how to sign their names.
2- If someone needs to read old documents e.g. the constitution, they should provide some specific classes to teach teens how to read and understand cursive letters. You can write letters, notes, documents, and so on, using block letters.
Speed up the whole process and progress.
Definitely
No. It is unnecessary and the waste of time. It wasn't needed 25 years ago when they taught me and even less so now. I very rarely write anything and when l do print works fine.
Lol. Not needed. Tell me what time a clock reads..... without digital. Why matter? Maybe Because what happens if the grid gets attacked or just goes down for awhile?
Even if the grid goes down, people can still print. If you can text, you can print.
If the grid goes down, a much more useful skill would be learning how to start a fire with twigs. Not a likely scenario I admit, but since you brought it up...
The consuition was wrote in cursive and there not teachin our childern this so they cant read it and know there rights
When was the last time you went at looked at the original manuscript
YES!!!
Bro what they need to be teaching in the U.S. are states and capitals bro I only know like 4 and I’m 13
when I was in 5th grade (2015-ish) we had a quiz on all 50 US states, capitals and where they were located
@@luren7570 yeah but that was 7 years ago I had to learn the states on my own
No
Yes
Interesting and down below it is a good skill to learn. There are pros and cons. Cons- I'm 39 years old now and as far as I seen up to today, its not used and discouraged. Thats really the only con. Pros- I can expand creativity. Its not a second language but can be impressive providing if it is legible. It is also an "I can do it" contributor to young self esteem. Is it a skill needed? No withe exception of signing documents and you social security card... Woops. Just spilled it for them. Your signature is unique per person and no one's signature is the same unless you are a con artist. So I guess it is needed to a certain extent.
More useful then algebra
Not useful unless teaching in school lol
How is it more useful than algebra lol. Maybe that was the case 100 years ago.
As much as I love cursive, it isn't more useful than algebra lol. If you are making such statements you are most probably mathematically illiterate.
@@TheMartian11 no I haven't used algebra since college lol 😆 definitely not a useful thing to know unless you use math alot
@@Truth72500 I am not gonna engage in this argument any further as you just proved my point, lol.
Cursive was the biggest waste of time. My handwriting always sucked and the day I learned to touch type gave me a life skill that I now use everyday at work and home.
I learned this skill in 1977 and I really wish that the time wasted on cursive could have focused on spelling and math skills.
If you don't understand curse of how would you be able to read any historical documents?
@@stevebri9161 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔦𝔯. Seriously the BIGGEST elephant in the room with cursive are non-standard fonts you will run into (as everyone will be writing slightly differently) Plus a reader's visual interpretation of your characters might be VERY different than what you intended. Is this a lower case l or uppercase I or the number 1 or maybe you wrote a | symbol? God help you if you're trying to write programing or other DATA related communication! No one ever taught me how useful it was to put a slash thought the number Zero 0 so as not to confuse it with the capital O My last name happens to be "Settle" My parents taught me to sign my name and cross the "tt" together in one stroke. Not good. years later I got mail addressed to a "Mr. Sehle" You can bet I PRINT my name clearly thank you very much!
@@DeactivatedCharcoal I think your missing the point
Bingo. As a college graduate, cursive will never help you beyond elementary and middle school, because it is never used, and it's only used in elementary and middle school for the sake of doing it. It serves no practical purpose.
@@jasonlarsen4945 So you print your name when you sign checks?
"Art" lol
Not only is it a great skill that will help in the long run with reading but it is a beautiful art! It is, a art!
It is an art. Grammar is cool as well.
No it’s bot
@@owengaul3226 😂
It should be taught as an elective, or in art class.
My goodness, did you even proofread your comment before posting it? Irony is someone talking about how other people should learn to write when they themselves clearly don't know how.
Great let teach a totally and completely useless tool. There are enough things kids need to learn, but hey as long as we are going to teach cursive we should teach them to read and write Latin and of course how to shoe a horse and I would not want to leave out farming.
Agriculture would be something I’d be interested in learning more about.
I write cursing, know Latin (and Greek) and can shoe a horse. My mom says knowledge doesn't take space, and it is true. Kids should have more options, more subjects to learn, not less.
And cursive is not useless, I can read old documents and write fastly, can your kids or grandkids do so?
Maybe I am jaded but my left index finger has an unusual bend in it. That bend was created by Sister Marie and her yardstick over the course of a couple years. It only ended when my pediatrician was looking at x rays if my fingers and asking why there were so many breaks. When I explained that the Sister and I did not see eye to eye. This inability of our led to my finders being beat with her yardstick. When he threatened my parents and my catholic school there was change. Those years were not a total waste. I Learned if you did repent for your sins you went to hell for eternity and the Sister had a way of making eternity really sound like something. She would ask us how long is eternity and the class would yell forever. Then her horror movie voice would start " remember children that if there was a dove and it flew between the earth and the moon every 100 years and as it past the earth it wing lightly brushed dust away from the earth. When that dove had completely warn the earth away eternity would not have even begun.
@@frankrizzo7781 nice story and all, but does it have to do with cursive writing?
I don't know how things are in your country but here in Russia everyone writes in cursive... German is my first foreign language at school, and we were taught to write in cursive. As I had started to learn English, I was surprised because our teacher demanded us to 'type', but cursive is much faster! I can't get it, how'd you read beautiful cursive fonts on the Internet?
I was tought in school its pretty much bull crap
It's unnecessary, I've learned it but rarely ever use it. I'm an artist and I get it that it's a fancier way to write. It just takes up so much of the curriculum. We should be arguing more about dropping many other unnecessary subjects, to make room for more tech subjects.
The world is moving forwards not backwards. Let's not set our children up to fail by keeping primitive subjects in schools.
The main people arguing to keep cursive are those barely able to use their computer or phone.
In my opinion that is not important
Do you realize there right now the majority of the world is absolutely dependent to an extent on the enter net and/or pure computer? Scary scenario that I might even think of writing about would be something Simple which is if the Internet and any sort of wireless information gets whacked. Simple which is if the Internet and any sort of wireless information gets Whacked. Start with simples. If the grid goes down can you go to the bank and get money ? Big suggestion would be keep a lot of money and safe places that are absolute Li easily obtainable without any sort of electronic information necessary.
No.
As a 44 year old with a 4-year degree and working on a Master's degree, I can't thinkof a more useless skill. I was taught cursive writing in 3rd grade - I never once had to use it in high school or college. We shouldn't be teaching children an obsolete skill they will never use.
Writing is not a useless skill. It is a symbol of personal expression and grace. A lovely handwritten card gives such meaning and warmth to the recipient. It may not be mandatory in today's world but it surely is NOT and will never be obsolete nor will it ever be useless.
@@angelamwatts You can write a meaningful letter in print, or even type it. I never said writing was useless. Do you think anyone could get through even one semester of college without being able to write? I said cursive was useless, and I stand by that. Most people's cursive handwriting is illegible to anyone but themselves.
If you want to write a pretty, artsy, handwritten letter - then learn calligraphy, it's not the same as cursive, should be legible to anyone if you do it correctly, and is more of an art form than cursive has ever been.
Cursive wasn't meant to be artistic. It was literally created so people could write with feather quil pens or other pens that were dipped in an inkwell, without making a mess.
Once the ballpoint pen was invented, cursive became irrelevant. Teaching it to school children is an obnoxious waste of their time, because they'll never need to use it the rest of their life.
@@jasonlarsen4945 If you can read words then you can read cursive. Writing and reading is an important skill. I wasn't aware that people in the present day are being taught to write in cursive using feather pens but whatever.
@@angelamwatts They aren't being taught to write cursive using feather pens nowadays, which is why cursive is irrelevant nowadays - because the primary reason it was created is now irrelevant.
If anyone who can read writing can read cursive, than you just took away the only remaining argument to keep it. If anyone can read it without knowing how to write it, than the argument that it needs to be taught so people can read old documents goes out the window.
Thank you for making my point for me.
@@angelamwatts Writing and reading are indeed important skills. I can do both at a college level. No cursive required.
NO
Yes, they should. Or is cursive racist somehow? Educators, DO YOUR JOB!
No if anything it’s classist
@@jmurray1110 So learning is "classist"? What a joke.
@@mayatuck I wasn’t being serious though there is a whiff of potential classism in forcing people to write in a way designed for an antiquated tool because that’s just what was done back then
It ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE TAUGHT. I learned it when I went to school, it is part of learning how to READ ANNNND WRITE🤨🤨.
It's just scribbling down words
Write normal
@@edwardhayes5837 😐
@@Spooky.Boogie.xj0461 it is though
I did it so you have to is a bad mindset
I learned it too and it was an utter waste of time. I don't remember the last time I was forced to use cursive, but it's been 30 years now and I haven't used it since elementary or middle school.
They need to bring cursive handwriting back into education because it is more professional looking
No it's not.
Sorry but, cursive is outdated with the lone exception being able to write your name in signature form.
@@seanyiscubsfan1 Correct, and even cursive signatures are over rated.
@@jasonlarsen4945 Over rated or not I don’t mind writing my name in cursive for signatures. Mind you I was in a third grade the last time they tried teaching us cursive. I remember them telling us that it would be useful and important when we’re adults in the real world. Oh how wrong they were.
How could they read documents, the constitution? poetry, this is so sad not to be able to have the basic education.
They dint need this what's wrong with just writing a normal word the normal fucking way
And u can't understand cursive writing because it's just scribbling in my opinion
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Woah my brain just went 😵
If they don't how will kids sign their signature when they get older I guess they'll print their name where it says signature, this really has to be one of those liberal ideas smh .
It's much safer to write your signature as a unique scribble than using an easily copied font. If your signature is just your name, then anyone who knows your name can forge it.
The reason they stopped teaching it because everybody used phones or some form of computer to where you don't really write that much no more especially in jobs where somebody else got an input your information into the computer one room letter can cost money for the company or mess up a computer software code for project that's why cursive is not needing no more
No
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