It’s worthless. Especially in a modern world where pen and paper barely meet in the first place, no reason to have two different types of hand writing. One, one that more closely matches the printed word, suffices just fine. It’s very high on the list of things I learned in school that I never used once I got out, and only used in school when forced.
The thing is it makes handwriting go faster.
Not trying to start a debate, but cursive isn’t worthless. It’s a faster way to write when you are doing it manually.
It’s worthless. Especially in a modern world where pen and paper barely meet in the first place, no reason to have two different types of hand writing. One, one that more closely matches the printed word, suffices just fine. It’s very high on the list of things I learned in school that I never used once I got out, and only used in school when forced.
Wow that is a matter of opinion. Let me offer a contrasting opinion.
I think it would be sad to have future generations unable to READ the founding father’s documents—is that part of the agenda? If they can’t write it, will they be able to read it? Will history literally be rewritten as students cannot read the original documents?
I was a fairly fast typist...75-85 wpm, and that skill landed me numerous lucrative office positions during college and beyond.
I studied programming in college and used a lot of print in coding. However, today I still use both printing and cursive....cursive, tho not as fast typing, is much faster than printing.
You say there is no reason to have have 2 different types of handwriting, well printing is not handwriting....you learn to print first —it goes hand-in-hand with reading...then students learn to write in cursive.
I think it is sad that since a witness on a public trial cannot read cursive, the national argument against cursive is heating up and people are pulling for the dumbing down of society... Let’s skip teaching grammar and spelling, too, as we can just use spell-check on our computers, and we are moving to email and texting society where people use abbreviations such as “BTW, OMG, IMHO, TTYL,” etc.