re: Who here cannot read cursive writing?

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Cursive is obsolete. There is no point in teaching it any more. I can read it because I'm old enough for it to still have been taught to me in schools, but it is something that is being phased out. Next thing you old farts are going to complain about is how young people can't function without knowing how to shoe a horse or change an ink ribbon in a typewriter and other "necessary" skills that aren't actually necessary anymore.

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Why teach art, everyone has a phone that can take a picture? Why teach music, you can download all you want to your phone? Lots of things are taught that will never actually be used, but play a large part in the development of children's brains. Just like learning to play a instrument, the repetition of learning cursive writing creates neural pathways that are beneficial in other areas, the physical act also develops fine motor skills. And do we really want our children to walk into the library of congress, and not be able to read America's most important historical documents because they did spend a hour a day for six months learning to read and write cursive?

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It's a snoddy catholic school thing to teach that serves absolutely no purpose (12yrs. of catholic school here).

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For me personally, I find it serves quite a few purposes.

First, if I'm in a meeting and trying to keep some notes while still conversing I can write faster in cursive than print (this applied when I was in college as well). This may not be the case for everyone, I'm not sure, but it definitely applies to me.

Second, if I'm with a customer and have to jot something down, I write in cursive and intentionally a bit more sloppy. Almost impossible to 'casually' pick up on what I'm writing if it's upside down and cursive.

I haven't needed to write in cursive in so long, I've largely forgotten how to write it. And some people have different ways of drawing certain capital letters like F or G I've noticed. But other than that, I mean christ surely an adult can at least READ cursive??

all they teach in schools today is socialism and SJW BS

basic skills you need to survive in life they have to learn on their own now

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I feel like this topic has been bitched about before on this forum.

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It has. I started a thread on it about 3 years ago.

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Many studies indicate that handwriting is superior to using a keyboard for note taking and similar tasks, so as long as that doesn't get purged, hopefully we won't get any dumber as a society.

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NASA had routinely printed all needed written material, and given it to astronauts during training, there was no need for them to write anything during a class. When the same astronauts went to train with the Russians they were forced to hand write all lecture notes. They found they learned the material much faster when doing this they just studying the pre-printed material.

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When did they stop teaching cursive in school?

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Depends on the district. My son learned cursive.

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Cursive is obsolete

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Actually, it's not, and it's becoming more popular again. A number of states (including Louisiana) are now making it mandatory teaching again in public schools.

I can write neatly both ways and use both in different situations, but writing in cursive is faster. So there is definitely a positive to learning it. Also, it is better for motor development.