Cursive Writing? By Christopher Martel

Cursive writing is the base to a good and structured education. Cursive writing should be thought in elementary schools. Also  known has joined-up or longhand cursive is known all over the world.  Cursive is a writing style that is neater and quicker to write. Schools say that they're preparing their students for the next generation,but the cursive his an important step in the past! Connection to archival materials is lost when students derive away from cursive writing.
    New generations wont understand their past if they cant even write or read cursive writing. Schools say that they're preparing their student for the next century! How could students be ready for the future if they don't have the base, joined-up writing. If they can't write well they can't read it neither. For example, i can't read letters from my grand-mother because she writes an old way of long hand writing.
If schools derive away from cursive it could affect the historians and museums. Connection to archival materials is lost when students turn away from cursive writing! This summer, i went on a trip with my family and we visited an old castle. there was several sculptures and antiquities, sadly all the descriptions were written in old style cursive that i was unable to read. the world is evolving yes that's true, but sometimes the old ways are better than the new or  known ones.
 Cursive writing is in extinction and WE has  a population should do all that we can to keep it alive! Joined-up writing should be thought in elementary schools. schools say they're preparing for the next century. Connection to archival materials is lost when we derive away from cursive writing. When you do your signature your suppose to do it cursive like but i am not able! i assume to not be the only 14 year old boy that was not thought cursive writing! be the change you want to see in this world!

Word ''I'' how Self Centered ! By Mathieu C

Our generation today is more self centered then ever, why do I say that, simply because today most people only think about themself, they don't think about admitting their errors. Everything today represent this except for a few exception close. Look at the music and how ''I'' comes up more and more often everday. From social media's like Tumbler, Twitter and Facebook are all about showing themself and to express, mostly the looks and to feel themself supported, and to keep planning on their little world. How can we change the opinion of our generation ? Togetter ?

Songs orr the music style that our generation listens too, it's funny how we can see so many songs which uses the word I. My opinion on this case is that it's that now not only kids which are self centered but the singers as well. From nothing to everything can change the perception of a child, singers like Miley Cyrus sends out a bad message to those kids which would like to be like here in anyway. Songs like'' with all I am '' are self centered.  People like Jay Donahue have great opinions on our generation which he openly speaks in he's rant video. (Linked Below)


Child worship is becoming a reality in today's world because of parents which now have playing on their schedrale. Today's excessive devotion to children. I am talking about today's parents which over manage their children and robbing  them of their childhood and breaking the learning process of playing in a sandbox and discovering the world like we all did one day or another. What I dont understand is that today's professional parents which tell them they have to study for their Kindergarden  entry exam. The Fact is that they are being pressure to succeded by their parent disgust me becausetheirs no time for their no time for childhood anymore, let the children play for good sakes ! This might just be a sophisticated formed of child abuse. Parents have taken too much space and didn't let their own kids be kids.

There should not be any no surprises to what my opinion is about about this subject which is happening all over the world in all modern or developping countries. Our generation , myself included,simply dont care about anyone else then there little person. Social medias only renforce selfishness, child worship doesn't bring anything good to the child except a more selfish behavier. When will the world redress itself ? Well childworship and to correct our community with the help of all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP6Q3isxC_I

What Cheerleading Really All About By Julianna Crawford

What do you think of when you think of a sport? I think of bordwork, passion and the heart and willing for you and your tesms success. Cheerleading should be considered a sport because it requires hard physical, mental demandings and teamwork just like any other sport. Cheerleading has been apart of our worldsince way back in the late 1700's after the American Revolution war being known as a hard maintaining sport full of focus and strength. Cheerleading requires the proper training, safe environment to practice, follow mandatory safety measures, and rules that must be abide by.

My first reason for believing thay cheerleading is a sport is because of the mandatory safety measures as we as, having to follow the rules that must be abide by. As said before, if any sport is a sport, then it must require rules to be eligible to play. Cheerleading has strict rules in order to avoid getting hirt. Just like, different level categories not being allowed to do certain stunts. In fact, if you abuse this rule you may will be punished by losing points or even disqualification, during competitions. It takes the heart and willing to have success in this sport by training hard keeping yourself up tight for competition just like any other sport.

Secondly, another reason for my thought of this subject is how cheerleading is physically demanding. Like any other sport cheerleading needs the proper training and equipment needed for the safety environment. Cheerleaders must be able to do flips, have the physical and mental strength that it takes for training, be flexible, and catch their teamates when thrown 10 feet up into the air. If thag isn't physically demanding then I don't know what is. Like all sports cheerleaders don't only need uniforms but need safety equipments. In cheerleading your safety equipment isn't you nut in your teamates hands to catch you when your thrown up in the air. This is  the reason why cheerleading should be considered a sport because you have to put some faith and trust to your teamates just as much as they expect it from you. In cheerleading you relie on your teamates to do your very best just like any other sport.

The favt is that it is physically, mentally demanding, it takes the heart and willing for success and involves being competitive makes cheerleading a sport.

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?  

To Ban Or Not To Ban By Maude Cormier

Recently, I babysat my neighbor's youngster. He is only eight years old and  had approximately 70 minutes of homework. He shouldn't have to do that much homework, he should be playing outside. To much homework doesn't help elementary students learn better. Elementary schools in Canada should give less homework, because it is to much work for a child, homework will overwhelm the students and will stress them out.

To begin with to much information for a young child's brain isn't good for them. When the kids come home from school they don't have any concentration left because they used it all up at school. Kids should go out and play instead of getting their brains fried by work. Having worked all day and coming back home with work is counterproductive. Margeret Morrissey says ''while we're making six, seven and eight-years-olds do extra work, in some countries they wouldn't even have started formal schooling.'' Banning homework in elementary schools won't make the students stupid, but might help might help them be even more concentrated the next day, since homework won't have taken all evening. That means they could go to sleep earlier. Why not ban homework? In Canada, there are already some schools that have banned homework. So why shouldn't all elementary schools ban homework? It won't hurt anyone!

Secondly, homework should be shipped away to an other country, because it overwhelms student's and adds pressure. Kids evenings are hijacked with homework. I remember when I was in elementary and I was struggling with unclear homework, my mother would try to help but it would always end up with me and he arguing which caused a stressful environment. Homework should be banned because of the stress it causes to the young innocent brains. Why should teachers give homework to confused minds? Homework will only increase the stress and decrease school grades. Come on teachers, be wise and realize, that homework only makes things worse.

With this in mind, homework in Canada does not help elementary students learn more. This is because homework is to much work for a child. Also it puts young students under to much stress at home and at school. How can they be the best if they're under too much stress?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7tj0eyTuLI

Should We Learn It, Or Should We Not? By Sara Kempf

Modern Technology VS. Handwritten Cursive

I have been writing in print for over 9 years and I haven't had one problem with it. Why would we need to learn a fancy handwriting? It's only more work. The importance of writing is not how fancy it is, it's how neat and understandable it is.

When it comes to teachers asking us to write a complete essay in cursive, typed or handwritten, I'm pretty sure the students have tendency to type it with a fancy-crooked font. It's very rare that we will see a student actually write his or her essay in cursive handwriting. Writing instead of typing is just so much work for nothing. So why complicate your life even more? You shouldn't even 'write' an essay, it should be typed, black on white. Next time you know what you should do: Type it- it's way easier.

If you can read and write, you can do anything with the letters and create new words. I think this is why the majority of elementary schools stopped teaching cursive writing. I know this because when I was in elementary school we used to practice cursive but after a while the teacher just stopped giving us the lesson. We would be writing and reading instead. Later on, you're going to be writing with a neat handwriting print, I guarantee you. The more you get the hang of writing, your hand will be making twirls in between letters, and the next thing you know you're writing in cursive without learning how. You don't have to learn it to do it. It will directly come to you, naturally.

What do cursive help you do? Write better? No, I don't think so. It's an extra handwriting that we don't have to learn how to write it. Sure thing, in 20 years from now, we might write in cursive, since we'll be getting older our writing and vocabulary will evolve. Although computers will always be there and it will evolve too.

So what would you do if you saw a pen and paper on the right, and a computer on the left with a blank page and a fancy font waiting for you? I'm 100% you will be choosing the left side since you won't get cramps in your hands for writing for hours in cursive, don't you? Like people say: Choose the easy way!

What is cursive? By Thomas Blackburn

Do people even know what cursive is these days? Exactly. Cursive writing shouldn't be taught in elementary schools anymore. This method of writing is taught in elementary school around grade 3 but nowadays school are wondering if it is still worth teaching because of the evolution of technology. For the reasons that it waste precious learning time and also because of how it might be difficult to read for the reasons that people don't all write cursive the same way. Cursive isn't even still use anymore! So why learn it?

Firstly, learning cursive writing wastes precious learning time that could be use for more important subjects. These days, many people have difficulty with their english or math maybe because when they were younger they didn't have the proper amount of time learning the basics. Honestly, I would have rather had time to learn my provinces then waste time on a writing I'll never use in my life. How long do you think it takes to master cursive? 1 week? 2 weeks? 1 month? I remember spending 3 months of every single English class learning and practicing. Imagine how much more reading or writing you could've done to help you have a richer grammar and vocabulary. Even now, 3 months might not be enough for some people.

Second of all, everybody has a different cursive writing. The fact that people write cursive in different ways might make it very hard to understand. Have you ever seen a doctor's cursive? Nobody can read that! Also, for many people who don't write very well and a very sloppy writing it might be a problem. For example, in my case I don't have the prettiest writing and it makes my cursive look horrible. Think about it, if cursive would be so common wouldn't people use it more often?

To conclude, cursive writing shouldn't be thaught in elementary schools anymore. One reason is for how learning cursive writing wastes precious time learning other more important educational stuff. Also, with the many different ways cursive can be written, it might make it more difficult to understand. Think about your last year, how many times have you used cursive?