Is Cursive Dying?

**Avada Kedavra** · 2013-10-07, 04:29 PM

I live in MN and as of recent, Cursive has been removed from the curriculum. I HAD to learn cursive in grade school because they said High school ONLY uses cursive( which was false but w/e)

Should Cursive be removed from schools? Do generations after us need to know how to read/write cursive?

Personally I think yes. How will they learn how to sign a signature? Most signatures are in cursive, so they wont be able to read them (not that most are legible anyways).

Deleted · 2013-10-07, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Avada Kedavra

I live in MN and as of recent, Cursive has been removed from the curriculum. I HAD to learn cursive in grade school because they said High school ONLY uses cursive( which was false but w/e)

Should Cursive be removed from schools? Do generations after us need to know how to read/write cursive?

Personally I think yes. How will they learn how to sign a signature? Most signatures are in cursive, so they wont be able to read them (not that most are legible anyways).

A signature is a random thing you come up with, you can draw a money if you like that to be a signature. Cursive can die for all I care.

Deleted · 2013-10-07, 04:31 PM

I was taught cursive, went to university and got told to write normally, seems like every job requires you to print rather that use cursive.

**Marthenil** · 2013-10-07, 04:33 PM

Thing is I would love to learn cursive, for the life of me I can't create a signature that is similar every time. My current one is ugly as hell and very basic.

**DrStiglit** · 2013-10-07, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Avada Kedavra

I live in MN and as of recent, Cursive has been removed from the curriculum. I HAD to learn cursive in grade school because they said High school ONLY uses cursive( which was false but w/e)

Should Cursive be removed from schools? Do generations after us need to know how to read/write cursive?

Personally I think yes. How will they learn how to sign a signature? Most signatures are in cursive, so they wont be able to read them (not that most are legible anyways).

I work in a job that requires a lot of contract review and most signatures are just scribble...

I believe it to be dying, especially with most things being typed now..

**Templar 331** · 2013-10-07, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Count_Satyros

Thing is I would love to learn cursive, for the life of me I can't create a signature that is similar every time. My current one is ugly as hell and very basic.

Mine hasn't changed since third grade. It's only gotten smaller. XD

Deleted · 2013-10-07, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Count_Satyros

Thing is I would love to learn cursive, for the life of me I can't create a signature that is similar every time. My current one is ugly as hell and very basic.

I wasn't blessed with cursive skills either, my signature sucks as well. I think a class specificly for creating signatures would be more usefull then just cursive. :P

**Underverse** · 2013-10-07, 04:36 PM

Cursive seems pretty useless

**Reeve** · 2013-10-07, 04:38 PM

Cursive should die. The only reason for cursive originally was that if you knew what you were doing it was a fast to write semi-legible script where you didn't have to lift and lower your pen very often (which could cause ink spots back in the days of quill pens). Now printing works nearly as fast, is more legible, and is more accepted. If you want speed, you can type your letters.

**eillas** · 2013-10-07, 04:38 PM

It's in a dying state. Last time I needed education wise to use it was in the sixth grade,

**Reeve** · 2013-10-07, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Count_Satyros

Thing is I would love to learn cursive, for the life of me I can't create a signature that is similar every time. My current one is ugly as hell and very basic.

If you want to learn it, you can learn it without elementary school teaching it.

**Marthenil** · 2013-10-07, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Sarac

I wasn't blessed with cursive skills either, my signature sucks as well. I think a class specificly for creating signatures would be more usefull then just cursive. :P

Agreed, due to my father's passing, I had to sign a crapton of legal documents. Problem was I had no signature at that time. My handwritting looks like egyptian hieroglyphs so I just wrote my name as fast as I could :P This is my legal sig for now. But I want to change it to something more elaborate

**Forgettable** · 2013-10-07, 04:40 PM

I used cursive in highschool for the first little while... Nobody knew how to read it, so they told me to print instead. That may have a little to do with my poor legibility, but nobody complained when I printed. I'm pretty certain cursive was a construct of trying to write faster, which it is... Compared to printing. But these days we have computers, and typing is much much faster (not to mention easier on the hand), so it's mostly an irrelevant skill now.

I'm pretty sure cursive is dying. And honestly, I'd rather people learn to type more efficiently than learn to write cursive.

**Adam Jensen** · 2013-10-07, 04:40 PM

Other than my signature I haven't used cursive since the fifth grade, who happened to be the last teacher to demand it of me.

I write via computer or I write by printing. My cursive is actually worse than my print and it takes longer for me to write in cursive. I hated it as a kid for those two reasons.

Cursive is pointless.

**Inthislzon** · 2013-10-07, 04:40 PM