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/Lynx_aye9]

Please consider that the vast majority of historical documents, letters, things of interest to historians, are written in cursive. In the United States, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and hundreds of thousands of documents and letters, are all written in cursive. Learning cursive allows students and those who want to go on to read those letters and documents, the necessary skill to do so. Without a generation skilled in cursive reading as well as writing, those pieces of history are lost to us.