This Washington Post lament over the decline of cursive instruction aside, I’m hard-pressed to come up with a subject nearly as useless as script writing. In elementary school, stylized penmanship was a big deal. By high school, the teachers had asked that I stopped using it because it was harder to read. Glad I learned that.
In any case, the decline of cursive seems inevitable and healthy. Class time is finite, and it’s hard to make the case that much of the time that used to go to penmanship shouldn’t now be spent on typing.
Yup.
Then again, if you write in cursive (or even if you don’t), you can still use your keyboard to write longhand. That’s right — with a little work and 9 bucks, you can have a font for your keyboard which is your handwriting! Read how.