http://www.westsidestorywbhs.com/news/2009/10/04/cursive-becoming-extinct-in-schools/ The School Newspaper of West Boca Raton Community High School Fri, 14 May 2010 16:07:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.westsidestorywbhs.com/news/2009/10/04/cursive-becoming-extinct-in-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Elena Sánchez Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:19:17 +0000 http://www.westsidestorywbhs.com/?p=217#comment-6 I totally agree with the idea that penmanship "should be required in classrooms just like reading, math and science." I remember I was required to learn it. We even had a special notebook with different designs to copy and repeat in many pages. The wonders of writing in cursive are: it makes note taking -another extinct skill- quicker; it allows you to develop more on an essay question, since you add more minutes to the time given (you write faster) and for teachers, it means, less headaches and time wasted trying to decode a very bad and childish handwritten paper. I totally agree with the idea that penmanship “should be required in classrooms just like reading, math and science.” I remember I was required to learn it. We even had a special notebook with different designs to copy and repeat in many pages.
The wonders of writing in cursive are: it makes note taking -another extinct skill- quicker; it allows you to develop more on an essay question, since you add more minutes to the time given (you write faster) and for teachers, it means, less headaches and time wasted trying to decode a very bad and childish handwritten paper.

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