Cursive to me is a form of teaching discipline...and concentration...one reason to teach it....well...two
Yes! And it’s far more elegant than text speak, which is how kids write now. They look moronic.
I’m an author and I still make a lot of notes and outlines in cursive, just because I enjoy it. There is something about putting pen to paper that is slightly magical. I can get a much better flow going that way than by staring at a computer.
We really didn’t need yet another excuse to keep American kids illiterate.