I heard a story on the NEWS today while traveling from job to job. the newsman was saying that the curriculum for grade schoolers no longer included cursive as mandatory study but was still encouraged as an extracurricular study.
This breaks my heart. Cursive is a beautiful, expressive way to write. email and computers have practically negated the necessity of writing. It is a rare person these days who bother with hand written letters. It seems to me though that there is a lot to be gained from the practice of writing cursive! Spacial awareness, hand eye coordination, and then there is the personal aspects to it such as a connection to the people you write to that just can't be expressed through an email, the individuality that one can see in hand written notes, and if you study the hand writing of others as I do, you can learn an awful lot about a person through their cursive.
I say cursive should remain a mandatory study!
What say you?