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ELI5: Why did Teachers in the past focused so much on Cursive?

Even in the 2000s I was being taught cursive, even though it seemed generally obsolete at that point. Why teach cursive when print is fundamentally better in every way, and we live in on age of computers?
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People don't really understand how deeply cursive was ingrained in the culture. Writing cursive was a fundamental part of basic literacy. It wasn't a weird fancy form of writing, it *was* writing. Print was only used in books, newspapers, and some signs (and sometimes for headers on handwritten documents), which is why it is called "print". When you had a pen and were told to "write" something, it meant to write it in cursive. To tell someone to not write cursive, you had to specify that they should "print" the words, as in they should imitate printed words, which was not the usual way to use a pen.

TL;DR: Cursive *was* writing, not a fancy form of it. Print came from printing presses, pens were used for cursive.