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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you OP, I think there are numerous benefits to having good handwriting in general, and several benefits to knowing cursive in addition to printing.

My kids have practiced penmanship in both cursive and print for at least a few minutes a day since pre-school/K.

Benefits of cursive handwriting specifically, in my opinion:

- generally easier for most kids to learn than printing

- often quicker than printing

[b]- cursive is necessary in order to sign forms & legal documents[/b]

- as we have seen on this thread, in many countries cursive is the more common (or, sometimes only) writing system used by educated adults, so knowing it could benefit kids who later work, live, or study in a country where this is the case

- cursive is generally regarded as more formal than printing; when handwritten correspondence is necessary it is probably preferable to write in cursive if your cursive is sufficiently good & legible[/quote]

No, it's not. My legal signature has been in print my entire adult life. (My handwritten correspondence, too.)[/quote]

Interesting. I don't doubt you or anything, but I am surprised. Every form I have ever seen has two blanks, one which says "printed name" and the other that says "signature". I always thought the two blanks implied that there was a difference between the two, and therefore that the latter signature had to be cursive. Is this really not the case?[/quote]

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