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So I read this which details how many states are removing cursive writing courses from school to make more room for computer typing classes. Do you feel that cursive writing should be put to an end?


I say yes, I hated cursive writing back in grade school and didn't know why I had to write like that sometimes instead of just printing my words. It's a dead art that should become apart of history and nothing more.
 
I hated cursive also.
We learned it but I kept repeatedly getting in trouble because I would not use it. My teacher kept telling me to use it, but I wouldn't. I found cursive much slower for me to write (since I had to remember how to make the letters then write them) and then after I'd written with it, it took me longer to decipher just what I'd written. And if I made a mistake when writing it? That was a pain in the butt to correct. So I just gave up on it and stuck to printing.

And if I had to use it now for exams and stuff, they'd flunk me simply because they couldn't read my writing. ( I've had professors state up front that they do not want cursive because it's harder to read, especially when they've got 40-200 exams to grade and if they can't read your work then they'll simply mark it a fail.)

If they want to preserve cursive, make it like an optional lesson after school worth a couple bonus points on report cards. That'll encourage those who want the points to take cursive, it'll still allow those who want cursive to take it and then they can still teach typing too.
 
VirusZero said:
I hated cursive also.
We learned it but I kept repeatedly getting in trouble because I would not use it. My teacher kept telling me to use it, but I wouldn't. I found cursive much slower for me to write (since I had to remember how to make the letters then write them) and then after I'd written with it, it took me longer to decipher just what I'd written. And if I made a mistake when writing it? That was a pain in the butt to correct. So I just gave up on it and stuck to printing.

And if I had to use it now for exams and stuff, they'd flunk me simply because they couldn't read my writing. ( I've had professors state up front that they do not want cursive because it's harder to read, especially when they've got 40-200 exams to grade and if they can't read your work then they'll simply mark it a fail.)

If they want to preserve cursive, make it like an optional lesson after school worth a couple bonus points on report cards. That'll encourage those who want the points to take cursive, it'll still allow those who want cursive to take it and then they can still teach typing too.
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only problem with that is what would be the point if you wouldn't use it outside of school? And to that point it would be pointless since most places would either want printed names or typed writing.
 
Maybe cursive can be part of Art class for 30 minutes a day since Cursive, and Typography is considered a visual art with words to people who are into font art.

Cursive writing is useful for writing checks, and signing the back of checks. Cursive is also useful for signing contracts. Cursive is harder for people to fake then block letters on checks.

If you ever become a celebrity like a singer, actor, the US President, a lot of fans who want your signature will want it in cursive rather then block or regular letters.

More people are using a digital pen or their finger on a touch screen tablet or phone, and cursive writing is faster then writing in block letters since you don't have to lift the pen with cursive. Also, some older touchscreen software uses cursive for text input.
 
My handwriting has taken some bastard hybrid form of cursive and print (in fact my signature is almost perfect cursive that progressively degrades in quality as my name goes on...) So, its not all bad....

Cursive isn't bad, its one of those things that is an art: some people just do it better than others.
 
Cursive still has uses outside school... (signatures being one. You still have to sign for any contracts, your license, cheques, some receipts, anything you get delivered, etc...) But in school situations they mentioned keeping cursive because it was faster for advance placement or exams. But my problem with that is while it may be faster, if you can't read what they're writing then they'll likely get flunked anyway.
Though is it really faster if you have to stop and remember how to form the letter? And even if it is faster is that necessarily a good thing? Speed vs Legibility after all.

I'm not saying do away with it entirely, there are still uses. But like I mentioned in my previous post, there are ways to preserve it and make people actually want to take it. (I mean if it were an option for bonus points on a class you maybe weren't doing so well in, that could be useful for you.) But for those that didn't want to take it then they could take it later (perhaps in a high school class or an outside calligraphy class) .

If they want to do away with cursive entirely they'd need to get rid of all these signatures needed for things like I mentioned in my first few lines above and just accept printed names instead. But that poses a significant challenge to do that.
 
VirusZero said:
Cursive still has uses outside school... (signatures being one. You still have to sign for any contracts, your license, cheques, some receipts, anything you get delivered, etc...)
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I signed my work contract in print, signed my license in print, signed checks in print, I've signed all receipts in print, and usually I just scribble my name out for deliveries. In my area at least, cursive is dead.
 
Cursive writing is useful if you plan on becoming a Christmas, Birthday, or Holidays card designer/illustrator since a lot of Christmas cards, and holiday cards use fancy cursive writing.

One of my teacher knows someone who designs computer fonts, themes, and typography like Times new Roman, Arial, etc, and Caligraphy and Cursive writing could be useful to him for making new fonts to sell. My teacher said he is rich from making computer fonts.

If it wasn't for Caligraphy, Steve Jobs who invented Apple computer might make worse looking computers with poor user interfaces and designs

Steve Jobs Illustration - P 2011 Steve Jobs' ex-Trappist monk calligraphy teacher put him on the spiritual path to changing the world.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-jobs-death-apple-calligraphy-248900

If it wasn't for Caligraphy, Apple would be a totally different company with poorer designed computers like Dell, Acer, and HP.
 
It took me 15 minutes to write the required sentence for the SAT's. Cursive sucks. lol My signature consists of scribbles.
 
GracefulAssassin said:
It took me 15 minutes to write the required sentence for the SAT's. Cursive sucks. lol My signature consists of scribbles.
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Haha, I remember when we had to write that statement; people were peeking at each other's papers because they forgot how to write certain words in script. I was one of them...

They force-fed us cursive in elementary school, then for 80% of high school it was mostly abandoned, then in college nobody cared how you wrote so long as it was legible. Complete waste of time, and I'd do away with it entirely if it was up to me.
 
Gym and computers is easy, falling asleep in school is hard when you have teachers who care, so props to you for that. lol
 
I have learned cursive writing and it's time consuming. I can write faster with normal letters and such when compared to cursive writing, even though I use it a lot.

I do think it looks good and every individual should learn it, if they want to and writing skills are not needed along with computer typing skills no matter what
 
I've heard that they took cursive out of schools and now they are thinking of bringing it back because some of the younger generations cannot read documents, like the "Declaration of Independence".
 
WitchAssassin said:
I've heard that they took cursive out of schools and now they are thinking of bringing it back because some of the younger generations cannot read documents, like the "Declaration of Independence".
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even if they put it back in, it won't be carried enough for them to retain the skill.
 
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