Should children be taught to write in cursive?

[CountDeMoney]

Is there some technique that you people use to print letters quickly?  Because I'm slow as fuck with that, and only do it when the forms I'm filling out are telling me to do it.  I can't imagine how it can be a practical way to write quickly.  And if I have all the time in the world to write something, then I may as well type it up.

Stop printing all your shit backwards then, Vasili.

[Camerus]

It's useful enough that it warrants some time being spent on it, but it's no longer worth excessive amounts of time or concern about legibility. With the ubiquity of computers / laptops it's a far less useful skill than it used to be.

[HVC]

Except for signatures I don't think I've used cursive since elementary school. In high school and college/university we had to write in print to legible. So it would probably be time better spent on learning things like typing if you want to stay on the same theme.

For the purposes of this vote I went with no. That being said, school spends a bunch of time teaching useless things, so whatever

[garbon]

Is there some technique that you people use to print letters quickly?  Because I'm slow as fuck with that, and only do it when the forms I'm filling out are telling me to do it.  I can't imagine how it can be a practical way to write quickly.  And if I have all the time in the world to write something, then I may as well type it up.

My general writing is sort of a blend of the two, though more on printing side.

[The Brain]

I use runes.

[Eddie Teach]

I use runes.

Are they imbued with magical power?

[The Brain]

I use runes.

Are they imbued with magical power?

I sometimes imbue them with enormous sexual power.

[Josquius]

We were taught joined up writing towards the end of junior school.
At senior school we were quickly told to stop doing it.
I guess because it is harder for the teachers to read.
So no. A bit useless.

[Grey Fox]

As a lefty, I hate cursive. Half of the letters have weird loops that fuck with my mind & I've stop using most of them.

Yes, it should be taught in school. Learning to take fast note is important.

[Monoriu]

Cursive is mandatory in Hong Kong.  No strong opinion as it is a tradeoff between speed and readability.  But either way most people now use a computer to type and print documents. 

[Monoriu]

This was one of the many cultural shocks I had in Canada.  When I was a kid, I was told that everybody in the English speaking world used cursive, and we all had to grow up and learn it.  We spent a lot of time and money buying piles and piles of practice books and going through them.  Then I was very surprised that some Canadians didn't use cursive and expressed difficulty in reading mine.  At first I thought it was because my English wasn't good enough and/or my handwriting was horrible.  It took many tries for me to figure out that some of them didn't learn cursive.  My teachers lied to me 

[Ed Anger]

If you print your name, I know you are goddamn millinial and you should be sent to a work camp.

[grumbler]

Cursive and touch-typing are about equal in my book.  I teach AP courses and college courses and grade AP essays and can guarantee that good penmanship beats good thinking about eight times out of ten in an academic setting.  I think students that can print legibly fast or hunt-and-peck fast (like me) suffer no disadvantage from poor penmanship or poor touch-typing ability.

[Zanza]

Is there some technique that you people use to print letters quickly?  Because I'm slow as fuck with that, and only do it when the forms I'm filling out are telling me to do it.  I can't imagine how it can be a practical way to write quickly.  And if I have all the time in the world to write something, then I may as well type it up.

My general writing is sort of a blend of the two, though more on printing side.

Same here.

[Zanza]

A common argument for learning cursive (in the United States) is so that children can read The Declaration of Independence and other historical documents.

That's a silly argument.  The important thing about the Declaration of Independence are the ideas it spells out,  not the original handwritten copy.