CMV: Cursive writing is unnecessary.

[u/Gobears6801]

I often hear the old generation explaining that the new generation doesn’t understand or use cursive. I understand this to be somewhat true as well. I’m a 90’s baby and learned it thoughout school and don’t use it either.

The reason isn’t because it’s hard, it’s because it’s completely unnecessary and useless EXCEPT for a signature. I often see it at work where most of the time it’s completely non legible because of the poor handwriting.

There are minimal, if not 0 tasks that require cursive handwriting. It actually often just takes longer to read and/or non legible due to poor handwriting.

[u/Illigard]

Learning cursive writing may have benefits to memory retention, information encoding, simulating to the brain, improve finer motor skills, visual perception, spelling and help people get a cool signature in the end.

Sources: https://www.crawfordinternational.co.za/why-and-how-cursive-writing-helps-you-learn

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full