re: Cursive- a lost form?

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How long did it take you to learn cursive? I think it was about a one hour class for half of second grade for the school I went to. Not exactly a huge waste of time to learn a skill that provides you with the key to correspondence with countless people who still use it.

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It may have taken only six months to learn but I remember receiving a worthless "handwriting" grade all the way through eighth grade.

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And since we're at it, should we quit wasting time with math? Why learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, when gadgets in your pocket or on you wrist can do it for you error-free?

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Not even close to comparable. We aren't talking about a machine that does cursive for us. We are talking about an expression of writing, not writing itself. It's more akin to saying that students should learn how to work math problem on touchscreen tablets instead of looseleaf.

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Forgeries are hardly ever prosecuted based on writing samples.

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Something tells me you're not a lawyer

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Plus, smart people have all important documents notarized to prevent accusations of forgery.

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Something also tells me you are not intelligent enough to call other people dub..

Fun fact: knowing how to write in cursive has nothing to do with poor grammar skills.

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I have absolutely terrible handwriting, made worse by the fact that I'll lapse in and out of cursive and print,

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Another great reason for cursive to die. It's extremely difficult to read.

I havent written anything in cursive other than my name in at least 15 years. I'm 31.

I agree that it's probably pointless to teach. That time could def be spent better elsewhere. That doesn't mean parents can't teach their kids. God forbid parents actually teach their kids something. I know that's a completely novel idea.

I quite writing in cursive once I got to college. I could no longer read my notes.

If you ever take the GRE, they make you copy in cursive the academic integrity policy. Lord, that was almost more difficult than the actual exam.

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I learned to write both ways as a kid

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So did I. I wrote in cursive for many years.

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can just as easily write one way or the other depending on the situation

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stopped writing in cursive when I found I could print faster, and more legibly.

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not that difficult as some are making it out to be

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when it is a skill you have not used in decades, it can be difficult.

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Something tells me you're not a lawyer

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I am. And I handled insurance fraud cases for a few years. Writing sample "experts" lack a lot of credibility and are hard to build a case with. Most fraud is exposed through either eyewitness accounts or patterns of behavior. The two signature fraud cases I won were due to patterns of behavior.

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Something also tells me you are not intelligent enough to call other people dub..

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Smart enough to know cursive is a dying practice.

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That doesn't mean parents can't teach their kids. God forbid parents actually teach their kids something. I know that's a completely novel idea.

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I don't think anyone here has argued that parents should be forbidden from teaching their kids cursive.