What was the point of learning cursive in school?

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Originally Posted by Schneed10

Completely agree. Why it was ever used is beyond me.

Thank goodness it's being phased out of schools. And to think for years we wasted time teaching our kids this nonsense when it could have been spent on science & math.

The ironic thing is I usually tell people that ask why we learn "pointless" stuff in school (ie stuff we won't use in our jobs after we graduate) is because up through college you're learning how to learn. Also a lot of curriculum leading up to college help create well rounded students. Still I remember cursive was suppose to be one of those things that we were going to be able to use after school.

One of the things I've heard a lot is that computers and widespread adoption of word processing was a huge game changer. Still it's kind of funny how I look back and think of how I was required to write in cursive all the way up to high school.

I actually tried to read some of my old report cards from back in the day but the early ones were written in cursive and it took me twice as long to deduce in what ways I was disruptive in class.

But yeah, seeing as how our generation has fallen behind academically compared to the rest of the world we may have been better off spending more time on the core subjects of math and science.