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CMV: Cursive is a waste of time to learn

Cursive is a waste of time to learn. I rarely sign anything now a days. I order stuff online. Even then, my signature does not look like my name and I learned cursive back when people thought high schoolers would hand write all assignments (we didn’t 3rd grade teacher). 


Cursive is discouraged when the computers go down because it may be misread if the person doesn’t write neatly. 


Not being able to read important documents in its original form isn’t a big deal. There will always be hobbyists who learn it for fun. Not to mention thr average person doesn’t even bother to read the documents. If they need to look it up, they read a printed version in a book or on a website.


So it is my belief that cursive is a waste of time. 


Edit: it is a waste of time to teach in a standard school setting*
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Cursive is not a waste of time because *not* knowing cursive severely limited you in what you can do. Say, for instance, that you want to be an historian. Well, to be a professional historian, you have to be able to read documents hand-written in cursive, like old letters or even old deed records.

Not knowing cursive also makes it more difficult for you to be a bank teller. What if you can't read what somebody wrote on a check?

Not knowing cursive also makes it impossible to be a petroleum landman or even just a real estate title researcher because you won't be able to read a lot of the earlier documents. In a lot of courthouses, you won't even be able to read the indexes.

Cursive is also useful for taking notes in any class you take. This is actually the whole reason cursive was invented in the first place. Since the letters are all connected to each other, you can write whole words without lifting your pen, which makes it faster.