Your final test involves reading Rx straight from the doctor’s scribbling device.

People should know how to write in cursive (and read it). I wouldn't send my kid to a Catholic school, but they are usually way ahead in curriculum, or at least they've kept some of the old classes. I guess I might send them there if the public schools were really bad. But I would look for other private schools. It's a moot point, though. I'll never have kids.

I believe it was and continues to be a real travesty not to teach young people this skill. Life skills that can be used throughout one’s life are way more important than memorizing facts that will mostly be forgotten or no longer relevant.

Cursive writing has been demonstrated to be good for the brain. This is a positive step for students.

read either, just give them audio books?

I remember when this debate was going on in my district. My mentor teacher said, "How will they be able to read a letter from their grandmom?". I taught 6th grade and the students had to write in cursive and they actually liked it better than printing. When I taught 1st I had to teach regular printing but the class always pleaded with me to teach them cursive. They thought it looked cooler than printing.

When high school helpers came to my class for 6 weeks. Their printing was strange and I could barely read it and my students couldn't read the comments on graded homework by the high school students.

The past 20 years has produced a style of writing that is neither traditional printing nor cursive. It is a hybrid style that almost looks like graphite. It looks like Greek to me.

count me as not caring about cursive. when i homeschooled that was 1 subject i could.not.make.them care about.