If you're looking at it through the modern conception of public schools you do basically have to justify it with some quantifiable metric like writing speed, or you discard it cause muh computers.

Whole thing at the core is a problem with schools existing to prepare kids for the labor market, as well as having to quantifiably grade everything to determine a childs future opportunities in academic bullshit.

And students know that they're under pressure to determine their futures too, so they're gonna be sitting there with cursive feeling like this is all bullshit that just randomly will fuck them over if they can't get the hang of it.

trying to justify it with writing speed or whatever is just some bazinga brained bullshit

I specifically switched to writing in cursive because I had a job where I had to take a lot of notes and using a keyboard wasn't an option. It let me write faster and it stopped me from getting hand cramps.

To me cursive was a very important part of gaining fine motor skills. All these horror stories about being abused to learn cursive don't sound like the problem is with cursive, rather with abusive teachers

I'm with you there. Obviously we shouldn't, like, beat children for not writing perfect cursive in third grade, but kids should be playing outside and engaging in more active learning anyway. There's no harm in making one of the actual classtime activities be cursive rather than extra math class.

I too remember the 1890s

It’s amazing that they were still teaching cursive when I was in school in the 90s. They had elementary school kids who had never seen a fountain pen in their lives learning two different kinds of writing for no reason whatsoever. As a kid you’re just like “I guess we doing cursive now” but it had to be embarrassing to be a teacher, who has also never used a fountain pen, trying to explain why anyone would ever need or even want to write in cursive.

GenZ dresses like shit so it's no surprise.

I think the thought process is about making Gen Z give a shit about the brand.

Depends who's writing. I can read a letter from my grandmother. I absolutely cannot read the notes my boss leaves.

I mean sometimes I can. But only with a lot of analysis and context clues lmao

Impact font

This is the memeification of the written word distilled to its most pure form.

Three cheers for undiagnosed dyspraxia! And for parents who would say shit like, "if you get straight As on your report card, we'll buy you a new Nintendo game! Oh, what's that? An A in every subject except Handwriting, and you only got a C+ in it? Guess you're a miserable fucking failure who doesn't get a new game! Enjoy playing nothing but SMB/Duck Hunt until the end of the next quarter!"

I remember it taught in schools, bit most people print or use a computer/phone. Weirdly, I use cursive lower case Fs and print everything else

Kids can't read sanscrit either it's fine

Yeah, I'm 23 and have a hard time reading cursive. I was taught it in elementary school, but there was no pressure to continue using it after learning it so I just forgot it over time.

I literally still use my dead name for signatures because I don't know how to write Leyla in cursive and Ls were always the hardest letter for me if I remember right

i like unique writing scripts. though yes fuck the teachers who would snap my hands with rulers or force me to write the same word a billion times until the skin on my hands were rubbing off from moving on the paper and desk so much