Persuasive Essay About Being Cursive

I remember walking down my elementary school’s hallway, looking at the fifth grader’s projects, hanging on the wall all beautiful in cursive writing. It looked nice but even in third grade I was dreading having to write that much in cursive. I was wondering if I could run away and live in the woods, you didn’t need to write anything in the woods. Thankfully I did not need to run away because just two short years later cursive was already obsolete, little did I know what a travesty this was.

Children all around the nation are not being taught cursive, and this is an injustice to them. As children learning cursive will help them create fine motor skills. Not only will it help every child but according to Maria Konnikova a writer for the Times magazine describes that “cursive can serve as a teaching aid for children with learning impairments like dyslexia” (Steinmetz 6). Clearly every child can get something out of learning cursive, whether it is fine motor skills or a more precious teaching aid for a struggling child.

Personally, in history class I have had to do many projects where I learn about my family history. This normally means that I am looking through old documents, and diaries, which are often written in cursive. According to Valerie Hotchkiss, a library director at the University of Illinois, “[kids] will not even be able to read their grandmother’s diary or their parents’ love letters” (Heitin 4). So children who are required to do these projects must enlist the help of their parents, or someone who knows how to read cursive. This creates problems for the child and takes free time from the