No, cursive's dumb.

There's a paragraph about integrity, or something, on the GRE's that you're supposed to write verbatim in cursive. It was taking me so long that I decided to just call their bluff and write it normal. I had long since forgotten how to write a few letters.

Apparently that was fine.

I can’t imagine not writing cursive

Not knowing it is illiteracy by definition, it's also good practice for dexterity and comprehension

Very likely it'll class stratify in time, already is

Also if skynet becomes reality it's how underground clans will encode their letters to one another

Call me old school or just fucking old, but how the hell are you an 'educated' person in the U.S.A. if you can't read the Constitution and Bill of Rights in the original hand?!!!

I have my doubts about the subject, really in current times we write more on the computer or cell phone, than we write by hand... but the art of writing cursive really is beautiful, unfortunately personally I am terrible at writing, my handwriting is horrible.

In fact, with 32 years of having one of my signatures, it is never the same as the other.

Why shouldn't they learn a form of writing when they can learn a lot of superfluous things? So, "YES".

Our son learned but we haven’t taught our daughter. If she wants to learn then great, if not we can probably skip it.

Every time I see actual cursive written, I realize I forget that cursive even exists and that I was forced to use it in school from 3rd grade onwards

That's like asking "Should kids learn Pig-Latin?"

If your answer is "yes" to both, then at least you're consistent.

But if you think Pig Latin isn't going to offer them much in life, and you think cursive is, then you're just out of touch with our modern reality.

I believe that kids should learn all kinds of stuff. The more the better. Teaching pig-latin and cursive is a good thing, for fun. But NOT if it's taught as a seriously important subject where they're tested and spend days learning it.

Spend a day on it for fun. Make it lighthearted.

kids should learn things that force their minds into adopting a "system of thinking"

learning python forces them to think in logical steps

Learning cursive helps their long term memory learn a skill with a rubric

Memorizing multiplication tables help them develop pattern recognition.

Learning a sport helps them connect mind and body

The private school my kid goes to teaches cursive first. It's actually better in many ways.

Seems like a waste of time and energy

Cursive or just writing in general? I think it's worth spending some time making their writing look nicer. Probably not too much as all they'll probably ever need is a keyboard to type with. But even that might be replaced by high quality speech to text software.

Is that a problem? Honest question. Here where I live, we’ve learned cursive since childhood.

Oops, I voted no by mistake.

Cursive handwriting is important. It's now almost a lost art (not lost yet, going to be lost in future generations). There are a few younger folk out there who are discovering and learning it, hopefully they carry it on to their own kids.

In Brazil, we're taught cursive from a young age — it's the standard way we learn to write in school. 😶‍🌫️

I’ve never understood the resistance the cursive. Most people tell me that no one uses cursive anymore so why teach it? But the same could almost be true of printing now that most people have devices.

I read somewhere that cursive helps reduce spelling errors for dyslexics because they don’t lift their fingers off the page.

But I think in reality, I feel that my time with my children is limited, so cursive moves down the priority rungs for me. Particularly so because many people don’t quite know how to read cursive. I don’t want him to be inadvertently disadvantaged because of other people’s ignorance

How about just learn what you enjoy learning about.

why don't let the kids decide?

Helps the brain develop its creative nature!

Does it come with any cognitive benefits? My sister can and she once inspired me to attain it, all in vain. Although let me show you how it looked in 2002

And now