A Waste of Learning Time by Maxime Paquet

Cursive writing, was it a fun and exciting  subject to learn about and more importantly, was it worth learning? The answer is probably no. Cursive is not necessarily required and/or useful in adult life. It wastes a part of elementary school that could be used to learn other things or improve other subjects. Cursive writing is rarely used in other years of our life other than elementary school.


To start off cursive is a waste of time. This time could be used to improve other learning subjects. Elementary school students could even learn other subjects. When I think back to cursive writing I can only remember checking the clock since it was such a boring class. After grade 4 I never heard of cursive writing nor had to write in cursive. Our cycle 2 teacher said it was important and would be greatly used in high school. My cycle 3 teacher did not even mention cursive ounce! So what use those it have? If it would still be used this blog would not even had existed.

Secondly when we enter high school it is not even used. We can choose to write like this but it limits to that. How can it be on cycle 2 subjects if it is not used later? Most people don't remember how write in cursive. Cursive writing is also more complicated to learn and harder to remember. As the way life goes, it is so not used that it will probably not be taught any more. If people don't use cursive, they will forget how to use it.

To conclude, cursive wastes learning time and is not of a great use in the future. Cursive writing wastes part of the learning time and is not required in adult life. The first reason is I consider it a loss of time. The second reason is it only relates to cycle 2. How great, wasting time, scratching our heads to learn cursive while it is not even used. 

Is Cursive Writing Necessary? By William Tuppert

Hi, my name is William...
Hi, my name is William...

Which one is easier to read? Cursive writing shouldn't be taught in any primary schools. Cursive writing also known as joined-up writing or running writing is letters joined up in
order to make writing  easier and faster and a word one single complex stroke. It shouldn't be used because it is a waste of time, people have a different type of cursive which makes it hard to understand and cursive is slowly disappearing.

To begin with, teaching Math, French, English is more important than cursive writing. This is why It is a waste of time. Students often struggle and take time to adopt the flow. This wasted time should be used to teach other subjects such as Math, English and French. It took my class in 6th grade 1 year to learn cursive writing and some still couldn't write properly. Putting into account that I learned cursive writing 3 years ago, today I have difficulty writing properly and remembering each letter in cursive. Unfortunately, this isn't only me that has this problem so if more and more kids forget how to write it than why are we teaching it?

Secondly, everybody learned cursive differently which makes the writing differnet for everyone. So what if someone misunderstands a word this could create a conflict with the letter sent by anybody. What if I receive a letter from anybody writtin in cursive and the writting isn't clear what am I supposed to do? What if the letter was important but In can't read it? Everything should be writtin or asked to be writtin in simple letters because some people won't be able to write properly or will struggle. Simple letters is simple clean,and neat. Pretty much is able to write and read it.

Lastely, cursive writing is rarely seen. Newpapers, do not use cursive writing because simple letters is familiar for everyone. Students who have school workbooks, textbooks, are all using simple letters. since it is rarely used, primary schools should not teach cursive writing, Facebook, television, media in general is not using cursive writting because it's slowly disapearing. If it's slowly disapearing then what is the utility of learning it? The media is everywhere so people are used to see simple letters ans kids are exposed to media everyday and no cursive writing is seen.

In conclusion, cursive writing should not be taught in primary schools. It is a waste of time, people have different ways to write which makes it hard to read and it is gradually disapearing. Now look around do you see any cursive writing? That's right, than why are we teaching we teaching them how to write it?