[MissEdie]

Not really, in some schools that specialize in teaching kids with learning disabilities they teach cursive writing as opposed to manuscript. The reason is the way the letters are written in cursive helps prevent letter reversals that often cause a lot of reading and writing problems.

[wintertime]

Hm?....Interesting.

I attended parochial schools in the 50s. The nuns never taught us to print. We started out immediately with cursive. ** ALL** the children in the class could read well. I know because we were lined up and forced to read aloud one student at a time.