For many of us, mainly males, it is not a matter of writing cursive. It is a matter of drawing cursive. Griz is right. Not having to write cursive has allowed me to focus on the word not the letter. Kind of like reading the words in a book as opposed to reading the story.
If you were taught to read words, you were taught wrong. we need to read at least phrases to make sense out of the written word. When you look at a page in a book you see the whole page and if you were taught properly you'd be able to process that page in a few seconds just like you do a picture.
Thanks for agreeing with me
M Haynie MS. Ed in Reading Education
The value of cursive, in my mind, is that since one is writing it on paper
and must erase, crossout or start over to correct mistakes, the writer will (if about half smart) think out what is being written better than if using a computer word processor where correction is done for you. After all it is quite possible, and many fonts exist for it, to type cursive....that doesn't help though.
In my opinion our nation needs to restore rigor to education. We've added years to the typical child's education, we've added subject matter, we've reduced class sizes to add attention from teachers, we've added computers to the classroom, and we've added calculators and other things. I think we have done this at the expense of rigor and depth.