The school board has decided that some students’ handwriting is illegible, and is making the format of cursive mandatory. This will go into effect at the beginning of next school year.
Many students have handwriting that simply cannot be read. Kids all over our school have been forced to turn in digital assignments rather than using their creativity and making physical projects. Grades have been going down, just because teachers can’t read what was written on the paper.
While most of the school knows how to write in cursive, many students do not. Although teachers expect students to know this form of writing, if students don’t, they are expected to learn over summer break.
Mrs. Iris Clark claims this is for the better of the school. “We believe that people must learn cursive or they will have to transfer two states down to another school that specializes in cursive handwriting.”
On the contrary, a student has expressed their concerns about this act. Naomi Johnson, a fellow redhawk, says, “Please do not, under any circumstances, force us to use cursive. I haven’t used cursive handwriting since I was in third grade. I have forgotten everything that there is to know about cursive. So please, do not do this to me.” Naomi is just one concerned student–many other kids have complained about the school board’s decision.
Unfortunately, they will not change their minds. The school has come up with this idea, and they will follow through.
On a side note, the colleges have noticed this change, and they have decided to hand out scholarships for cursive writing. Students can now get into better colleges just by learning how to write in cursive.
“Wredling students must polish up on their cursive, if they want to stay in school,” says Mrs. Clark. Wredling Middle School is about to be changed, for better or worse.
Naomi • Apr 9, 2026 at 3:12 pm
I am so happy that we will be able to write in cursive! but I think that next time we should just do Morse code because it is much easier to understand once you have learned it.