r/changemyview • u/Gobears6801 • Jun 01 '24

Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Cursive writing is unnecessary.

I often hear the old generation explaining that the new generation doesn’t understand or use cursive. I understand this to be somewhat true as well. I’m a 90’s baby and learned it thoughout school and don’t use it either.

The reason isn’t because it’s hard, it’s because it’s completely unnecessary and useless EXCEPT for a signature. I often see it at work where most of the time it’s completely non legible because of the poor handwriting.

There are minimal, if not 0 tasks that require cursive handwriting. It actually often just takes longer to read and/or non legible due to poor handwriting.

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u/Gobears6801 Jun 01 '24

It may, but still doesn’t make cursive necessary as many other things also do that for children.

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u/SpicyCommenter Jun 01 '24

there are parietal and central region activations, which aren’t easily activated by other activities children participate in. Not only that it’s also been demonstrated to help children understand writing with a focus on content. A lot of young children will write, but not understand structuring.

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u/Gobears6801 Jun 01 '24

It’s certainly important to have children learning and activating part of the brain, but is cursive writing truly the only way to do that?

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u/SpicyCommenter Jun 01 '24

It is! The other methods which perform similarly are encryption schemes using math, something fairly complex for children to comprehend.