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If I want something to be read I will write it in block letters at a perfectly reasonable speed

• b112 5y ago
  Truthfully, there is a reason for cursive. Not lifting the pen is a big time save, and cursive is designed to be written without that. EG, F doesn't require a pen lift pause to make the lower bar, in cursive. The way the letters are written are also for maximal speed, and of course, you don't have to lift pen between letters. Any skilled cursive writer will tell you, it is many times faster to write legibly in cursive over block letters. Do we need to learn it any more? Well, I'd say not for the speed benefits. But discounting the speed benefits, acting as if they are a lie, is silly. From my side, I see a lot of people complaining about leaning "dumb things" in public school, in these responses. Wow. Totally don't get the point of it. And of course if we removed what everyone on this thread complained about, in the public school curriculum, well, there'd be nothing to teach! Because everyone likes different things. Which is part of what public school is supposed to be about. Teach the basics, while seeing what you excel in, what interests you. You know what cursive teaches, outside of itself? Fine finger control. Brain to finger control mapping. It is an entirely different skill than keyboard pecking. And while you are learning it, you are still learning grammar, learning to craft thought to speech, and so on. There is no loss here.