My gosh .... when and why did they ever take it away???
“when and why did they ever take it away??
Computers did that. Everything was printed on a screen. Email replaced writing letters. Text messages, etc. I’d love for them to bring back Spencer script while they’re at it. It was before my time, but is beautiful to look at. I have a box of receipts from the mid 1800s left by a great great grandparent.
“My gosh .... when and why did they ever take it away???
Because you don’t have to write with a feather or a fountain pen
So I substitute teach in a high school. I never see cursive. Last week I did, and I asked the girl about it. She said she taught herself because "she thought it would be fun to do".
I hadn't really thought much about cursive until I saw it, and I asked her if she ever studied it in elementary school. She told me when classes went remote for covid, they stopped teaching it during remote lessons. And then she said when they came back to the classroom, they decided not to start it back up. (per your question, that is the answer from one school district in Iowa)
“when and why did they ever take it away???”
I heard about it between five and ten years ago when my great nieces weren’t learning it.
My conspiracy theory is that TPTB wanted to make it impossible for young people coming up to read founding documents and similar.
Because it’s for quill pens which aren’t used anymore.
The whole point of cursive is to keep the quill in contact with the paper so it doesn’t drip an ink drop onto the paper.