Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Letter Contest

      I think cursive should not be taught in schools anymore because after people learn cursive many of them go back to writing in print, people mostly communicate by technology, and we need to focus on the more important things in school.
      First of all, after most people learn cursive many of them forget it and go back to writing in print. For some people it might take them longer to write in cursive than in regular print. We can't force kids to learn it if they don't want to.
      Secondly, most of the people on Earth today use technology to communicate. Hardly anyone writes letters when we can just text or call. Letters take longer too. People post selfies of them on a fun trip instead of mailing a postcard. In school, a lot of what we do in on computers. We just type things up and hit save instead of writing  notes on paper and keeping it somewhere safe.
      Finally, we need to focus on the more important subjects in school, such as: Math, reading, writing, and science. If we spend time teaching kids how to write the alphabet in perfect, loopy letters it takes time out of learning the more essential subjects. In the article it says that for students from the 1950's learning cursive was part of growing up, but they spent so much time on that they didn't get to the really important stuff.
      Is it time for cursive to disappear forever, or would we be making a mistake if it finally died? Some people say cursive should still be taught in schools because many historical documents were written in it but we can get copies in print and just read those if we can't understand what they say.
      In conclusion, cursive should be banished from schools because people go back to print after learning it, we mostly use technology to communicate, and we need to focus on the more important subjects in school. For the reasons above, I don't think it would be such a bad thing if cursive died. Do you?

1 comment:

  1. Love it! Excellent transitions and structure. Good defense of your argument too. I'd say print this out and send it in:)

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