It’s long overdue, but cursive writing is losing its grip, so to speak.
Hawaii is joining several states across the country that are dropping cursive writing from mandatory school curriculum . . . The Aloha state has adopted for this school year the national Common Core State Standards, a set of education standards that omits cursive but includes keyboard proficiency.
As I’ve mentioned before, cursive writing was developed to mediate a writing problem that was solved in the steam age. Once steel pens were invented, there was no more need for cursive.
But I would favor teaching calligraphy in high school, to preserve the tradition of signature identification, and maybe educating folks on the nature of legibility and the evolution of written symbols.