[Parley Baer]

Honestly I never new it went away. Of course I am 73 years old and my children are in their mid 30’s. So I guess I am way out of date of these things.

[Trump20162020]

"It's definitely not necessary but I think it's, like, cool to have it," said Emily Ma, a 17-year-old senior

Like, totally.

[maine-iac7]

It was systematically and with malice4 aforethought taken out school - because it s a ‘brain-trainer’ - and that doesn’t fit narrative of ‘dumbing down’....

[KittyKares]

I love the story of the person registering to vote who couldn’t sign his name. I think it’s absurd not to teach handwriting. Is everyone taking lecture notes on a laptop in school?

[greatvikingone]

These are nostalgia laws.

Cursive is faster for some, but not all. From a genealogist’s point of view cursive sucks; bad printing is easier to read than good cursive.

[I want the USA back]

Not if it has people writing illegible scrawls. From what I’ve seen, it would be better if cursive were ditched and everyone went to digital.

How the hell am I supposed to understand those random lines on paper that have no connection at all to the letters as they are printed? Dump it. Ditch it.

[SandRat]

As of Dec 23, 2016, all Arizona, Public School, children up through the 5th grade are required to learn cursive,

[SandRat]

OK,..Cursive, what about Penmanship?

[SSS Two]

I’m all for cursive being required in schools. Of course, I think kids need to learn how to manufacture buggy whips, too.