21 states still mandate cursive in their curriculum.
There are lots of things I spent a lot of time learning school that I rarely use, but see the value in having learnt. Cursive, beyond a very basic level, is not one of those things.
Though I’m no education expert, perhaps there is a subliminal value to spending all that time.
I learned cursive in school and never used it. I have written countless essays by hand in grade school and college and never felt the need to do it in cursive because to me my cursive was just way more unreadable than my printing and not particularly faster.
There are lots of things I spent a lot of time learning school that I rarely use, but see the value in having learnt. Cursive, beyond a very basic level, is not one of those things.
Though I’m no education expert, perhaps there is a subliminal value to spending all that time.