Wife unit (Nurse) and I were discussing this last night.
Why teach cursive writing when everything we use these days has a keyboard?
Just teach typing skills?
Apparently she read (professional journal) where a study found that learning cursive writing develops a part of fine motor skills that nothing else does.
Cursive writing involves some creativity and for ideas to flow from one word to another. Not convinced? Sit down and write a desription of something in cursive. Lots of intellectual stuff going on, lots more focus, Also there’s hand-eye coordination involved.
There are some indication that if we taught cursive before print it would cut down significantly on the incidents of dyslexia.