The Death of Cursive

Some things are just logical.  Teaching cursive to children is one of them.  I just read an article in the Deseret News that stated that the governor of Louisiana signed a bill requiring children to be taught cursive in Louisiana.  They listed a handful of other states that now require cursive to be taught.

It's illogical that they would ever stop teaching cursive.  That's one of the basic fundamentals that children should be taught.

I believe I've mentioned before about making a formal invitation for a YW activity and none of the teenage girls could read the invitation because it was written in cursive. My dad writes in cursive.  None of the grand kids can read their birthday cards.  It's pathetic.  The dumbing down of society.

With all of the advances in technology people seem to be becoming more stupid.  They become more reliant upon technology to get them through life.  Anyway I could go on and on but I really just wanted to share a quote.

Learning cursive isn't just a good skill to have to be able to read birthday cards from your grandparents.  Or formal invitations.  Or anything written in history including your own family history.  Those are reasons enough to learn cursive but studies now show that learning cursive improvements cognitive function.

Here's a quote from the article I read this morning: 

"William Klemm, a neuroscientist at Texas A&M, recently wrote in Psychology Today that "cursive is an important tool for cognitive development, particularly in training the brain to learn 'functional specialization,' that is capacity for optimal efficiency."  

"Brain imaging studies reveal that multiple areas of brain become co-activated during learning of cursive writing of pseudo-letters, as opposed to typing or just visual practice," Klemm writes, adding that there is a "spill-over benefit for thinking skills used in reading and writing. To write legible cursive, fine motor control is needed over the fingers. Students have to pay attention and think about what and how they are doing it. They have to practice. Brain imaging studies show that cursive activates areas of the brain that do not participate in keyboarding." --Deseret News, June 28, 2016

Science is always proving logic correct.  Whether it be teaching children cursive or living the Word of Wisdom or floozationships are bad, or whatever other myriad examples you can think of.

It's nice to know that some states are coming to their senses and reestablishing cursive as a fundamental once again taught in schools.

That's my two cents.