http://theoatmeal.com/blog/handwriting This comic strip definitely sums up what happened to my handwriting when I learned cursive, then learned how to type on a keyboard. Spoiler from Cursive wasn't completely pointless. It did help with my signature...:-/
Lynus302 has a valid point. I think cursive was good back then when people still wrote with feathers and had to dip it in a bucket of ink. Having to pick up the feather between letters would leave a huge mess.
Are some of you really saying that penmanship needs to be abolished when you cannot read your own handwriting? Really?? 'Computers and cell phones mean we don't need to learn how to write legibly.' Facepalm, y'all. Or maybe I should say "lolomgwtf" instead. Let's just go ahead and make leetspeak the standard so long as we're continuing the whole dumbing down of America thing we've got going.
Yes, printing letters is time consuming. Why in the world would someone want to waste time printing letters when they can write faster using cursive?
They definitely still teach it. My son came home today and said, 'Daddy, guess what I learned in school today? How to write in cursive.' And then I get online and see this thread. He's in 2nd grade btw.
"Why do I have to" is one of the worst approaches in recent decades that we've given rise to, I think. Humanities are called humanities for a reason, because its about human capability and not living an automated boring calculator existence. There are people in other countries who learn more than two LANGUAGES, both spoken AND written. Compared to that, a little cursive doesnt seem so bad. I still don't think cursive should be mandatory really. Perhaps a benefit of learning cursive is it allows for different looking penmanship in each person (hence the term "signature" cuz its a signature look), its a way to identify people.
