 and there are some schools it comes as a shock as many to discover that we're not even teaching how to write in cursive any longer so why does any of this matter well it doesn't matter just because it's an old-fashioned ideal or that there's some eternal benefit from learning to write cursive as opposed to just printing block letters uh it's it's not like that and it's not truly a part of a culture war of trying to get back at somebody or win a political fight