By Walt Hickey Cursive The teaching of cursive in public schools has gone in, then out, then back in style, and California is the latest state with a new law requiring cursive be taught as of January 1 for grades 1 to 6. As of 2016, just 12 states remained that mandated learning cursive as people questioned whether the writing style was rendered obsolete by other ways of writing, including digital ways of writing. However, many states that had phased it out relented, and
So. The barista is going to still misspell my name, but at least it’ll look nice.
(I actually loved cursive,and writing with a nice fountain pen....but even the motor skills to print are lost to this damned condition I have......)