The Case for Cursive: Why It’s About More Than Writing

That’s when it hit me; writing isn’t just about putting words on paper. There are other benefits to it as well—important benefits—that are being lost.

Old family letters in cursive handwriting. Shutterstock

My son can’t sign his name. At least he couldn’t, until a few days ago.

I’d known that Jacob had only received about three weeks of cursive writing instruction in third grade, and that he really hadn’t used it since. Today, at the age of 13, any of his schoolwork that is handwritten is done in print, but most school work is done on a computer.