Consequently, cursive writing instruction waned. But within the past decade, statewide cursive requirements have been trending upward. In 2016, 14 states required schools to teach cursive writing.

Cursive is for when you have nothing else to do, or want to live out some steampunk fantasy. Typing, voice dictation technology or my usual chicken scratch would’ve done the job far faster.

News Education Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in California Mon., Jan. 15, 2024 ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.