Cursive will no longer be a part of the US school curriculum.

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On 2022-11-04 at 5:31 PM, Dreambiscuit said:

It figures that cursive would be excised from school curriculums. It's a bad idea to remove it so naturally that's what they're going to do. It’s useful and a faster way of writing than common printing. Considering some of the totally meaningless garbage that schools force-feed their students, it seems cursive should be low on the list of topics to remove. But such is the stupidity of modern schools. To think that some schools have instituted ‘Ebonics’ courses into their programs, yet remove legitimate teaching of real language is typically absurd. But I guess slang and degeneration of actual verbal meaning has little importance compared to posturing for the media or imparting skills that have actual use.  

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Apparently it was also removed in my country a few years ago. I don't know what kids learn today in those lessons, but I think there are plenty of more useful things they could be spent on. I know many people (myself included) that stopped using cursive at school as soon as we were no longer forced to use it (yeah, that was the case for a few years, probably because almost no one would have used it otherwise) and went back to using our regular handwriting. It might be faster to write, but the benefit isn't big when it makes reading much more difficult. If someone's handwriting isn't easy to make out, I can't imagine cursive making it any easier.

Edited November 7, 2022 by Tacodidra