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Based on my opinion and evidence from both sides on the issue of whether or not public school students should be tought how to write in cursive as a required part of the curriculum. In my opinion teaching cursive is important because its vital for your brain and thinking process to be excersiced. In the artical "Cursive is a powerful brain tool" Paragraph 3 it states that "in medical brain scans proved that writing in cursive helps with motor skills and stimulates both right and left part of the brain rather then typing and printing by hand only requires a individual rather then connected movements like cursive requires", And if medical scans can prove that u excerise your brain more writing cursive then typing then we should never exclude it in the teaching curriculum. In addition to my opinion on paragraph 4 in "cursive is a powerful brain tool", The artical explains that cursive can be used as a "teaching tool" for students with brain defects such as Dyslexia and reading disorders. I feel that if something serious such as a brain disorder can be helped by learning cursive rather then a major surgery. We …show more content…
Also Stated in the artical "Students in both high School and College are explected to turn in typed, rather then handwritten papers." Technology is dominating the way we communicate, Cursive is a dinosour but the medical reasons behind it are substantial to the ones of

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