Why Is It Important To Be Cursive

Cursive is something I hated from the day I first learned it in the fourth grade. It seemed like a complete waste of time and I thought there was no point to it. The teacher used to come up to me and tell me that I needed to work on Z since it was the first letter in my name and as such that was the only letter I ever really worked on. This resulted in my undermining of the other letters which made my cursive basically scribbles. So I was praising the day that we would no longer have to write in cursive. It was almost a holiday. However, by writing in only cursive enthusiastically for a year lead my print to suffer which left me with no good way to write as now both my means of putting words to paper become ineligible. This made me really
Not only is cursive necessary for specifics as previously mentioned but it is also very important for general security. As a means of verifying thing like checks and documents “printed letters are easier to forge” (Steinmetz 3). This factor alone should be enough to keep cursive on the curriculum in all schools. Since it has no longer become a choice in writing but has graduated to the point in which it is a means of verification recognized everywhere. Even in a generation of technological advances signatures have still reigned over as the best means to prove somethings authenticity. This isn’t to say that technology is not attempting to take over even the process of signing, offering things like electronic signatures. However even these lofty goals are only met with the reality of the typing of a print name into a box that says signature. Which from what I have heard is very easy to fake on things like safety waivers for your local rock climbing
Even the fact that cursive is faster than print since “ the writer doesn’t have to lift his of her pencil… [is] only minimally true” (Heitin 20). However, this fact is to be argued with the legibility of the the writing as well as the fact that everyone writes with a different speed. To Also say that such a fact is only minimally true still doesn’t dissuade the fact that it is a true statement. This factor though only does little to effect the true value of cursive. It is not security or being a special type of penmanship for special occasions, but something still different. And that is its historical