re: Cursive- a lost form?

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Me too, but its slow as hell. I have my nice print, and my chickenscratch note print I learned in college. I just never used cursive once I got into high school, and none of my teachers made me.

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Right.

For me though, my dad had this incredible print style he used. I love it so much I keep meaning to have someone who's better at it than I am turn it into a font. I spent hours trying to copy it, and do a pretty respectable version.

Cursive is just unnecessary. It's not that when done well it can't be beautiful...it's that the point of written language is to be able to convey a message in written form. Other than style, there's no reason at all to make the lettering fancier than what's needed to do the job. Not a bad idea to continue to teach the ability to read it, given there are still some who use it. But to be graded on writing it? Nope...