Try this, Big Truck. Just make sure you don't have to erase anything... 
There are good reasons for this. eye hand coordenation, thinking skills to interpret, teaching grammar and logic. etc.
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Same here.
Double whammy, Iām left handed.
I don’t know how many millions didn’t learn how to read and write cursive, but now they will have to go through life surrounded by older and younger people, and most or many of their own age group, who all know and use handwriting, their entire life with many situations similar to being illiterate.
Yeah, once I took drafting in H.S. I mostly print.
Cannot read my own handwriting.
I can write BACKWARDS in cursive. I don’t know how or why I ever developed that, but I do. Probably in high school, I was pretty bored, so took notes backwards. A strange quirk, right?
Cursive? Almost illegible unless I really, really concentrate. People look at my signature and call it a "mosquito squash." Printing, for me, is faster.
Now, I used to have to decode letters from my mother (RIP), because at first glance her handwriting was bumps on a line; there were letterforms, but they were VERY small.
That said, I applaud the reintroduction of cursive to the curriculum. In particular, cursive by the female hand; in a large number of samples the result is pretty.
When I was in school in PA (many, many moons ago) we learned the Painter System. Old Mr. Painter himself, who was like 120 years old, would come around and grade our samples. Everything had to be perfect or you got a frown and a headshake from the old gentleman. I got a lot of frowns and headshakes. To this day I use a hybrid between cursive and printing - sort of printing with connected letters that nobody but I can read. Mr. Painter spins once in his grave every time I write something.
Both sides of my family were very conservative.
Good handwriting was a matter of pride.
My grandparents were always interested in seeing my handwriting.
When I wrote thank you notes to my relatives for Xmas and birthdays my mother would always make sure that they were in my best handwriting.
I probably worked harder to get an A in handwriting than any other subject in elementary school.
At seventy-five, I still take pride in my handwriting.
“Well....I know damn, and hell.....”
My grandad learned cursive in the second grade.
After reading some of these replies: Folks, don’t give up on writing by hand! I started a few years ago trying to keep handwritten notes and it was NOT EASY (I’m old). Recently I discovered “Zettel Kessen” a note-keeping system. This is a new wrinkle.
Try to write in cursive and don’t stop trying! It will give your brain and your fingers a workout that you need. (Also, it’s useful if someone is trying to see what you’re writing - my cursive is so bad that ONLY I can read what I’ve just written!)
Being a lefty, I never had GREAT handwriting and I now mostly print, but I actually enjoy writing in cursive once in a while when making notes just for the pleasure of it. It’s the one and only semi-artistic skill I possess.
Why waste the money, the kids all know how to curse already
Try this, Big Truck. Just make sure you don't have to erase anything...
ditto ...
personally, i think it’s totally a waste of time to teach children cursive writing as a mandatory subject ... much better to focus on touch-typing and even printing ...
except possibly for signatures, there’s about as much need for cursive writing in today’s world as there is for Sanskrit writing ...
in the not too distant future, only Professors of Cursive Writing will be able too study, decode, and interpret cursive writing ...
cursive writing is the penny of communications, and i say good riddance to both ... now if we can just get rid of daylight savings time ...
This will be a strain for high school students these days.
40% cannot place if WWII or the American Civil War was earlier.
When I was teaching at the day treatment center for juvenile felons — I pretty much had carte blance on what I taught the kids. So... I got them reading — they tested at or above grade level before I left — and began teaching them cursive.
My explanation to them — they needed to be able to read the founding documents themselves.
Curiously, a year later, both Orange County and Seminole County Public School Systems began teaching cursive again...
Yeah, but will they have the Sisters of St Joseph walking the aisles during “Penmanship” time wielding a ruler ready to crack down on the miscreant not holding the No 2 pencil correctly?!