Cursive handwriting is obsolete, but the fact that no one uses it isn't the cause. Cursive handwriting was meant for fountain pens, which only need to contact paper (not be pressed down on it) to write.
Personally I have always found it sort of pointless, and even though I did learn it and used it throughout my K-12 experience when assignments required it I very much preferred to type out my work. It just felt cleaner and more readable.
Although society is productive, our education system is far from it, and that's the only place cursive is alive. Unless we adjust it to where we teach it in a high school art class instead of elementary school, I think it needs to go.
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Cursive handwriting is obsolete, but the fact that no one uses it isn't the cause. Cursive handwriting was meant for fountain pens, which only need to contact paper (not be pressed down on it) to write.
Personally I have always found it sort of pointless, and even though I did learn it and used it throughout my K-12 experience when assignments required it I very much preferred to type out my work. It just felt cleaner and more readable.
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