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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cursive is dead, seriously. Schools teach it for a couple weeks in third grade and then kids never use it again. By the time you get to serious work in middle and high school, it's all on computers.[/quote]

WRONG!!  There is significant evidence that when schools stopped teaching cursive in grade school, kids brains failed to make some very key connections and damaged their ability to learn in later years. Privates, the best ones at least, all started teaching cursive again in the past decade. Both my kids had it. The standard is Cursive without Tears or something like that (it’s been a few years for my kids). [/quote]

Here you go -there are many more examples but start here:

Learning to write in cursive is shown to improve brain development in the areas of thinking, language and working memory. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and 
- https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/04/30/should-schools-require-children-to-learn-cursive/the-benefits-of-cursive-go-beyond-writing

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