When I need to write comments on student work, I can't really type it. (Maybe in a few more years, but the technology for introducing your own markup to an elec

When I need to write comments on student work, I can't really type it. (Maybe in a few more years, but the technology for introducing your own markup to an electronic document is still clunky, awkward, and bad at letting you draw arbitrary connections between things.) So I write it, and I do occasionally and increasingly get comments from students that it's hard to read despite being a basically conventional and legible cursive script. I don't really have any alternative (because printing would be a lot slower and grading already takes up more hours than I really have), and it's not really anyone's fault; it's just that they're out of practice reading cursive. Of course, they're also out of practice reading anything, but that's a separate problem. For the people that suggest that cursive is dead and students don't need it: how are you proposing that they take notes and take tests? Computers are still not quite pervasive enough to assume that everyone will have one with them at all times, besides which there are good reasons to keep them out of the examination room if you do sit-down exams. You could tell them to print instead, but why would you force them to slow down like that? Non-calligraphic cursive is faster.