Every night at dinner time. I have to sign my debit card bill after totaling the tip for the final amount.
Printing has its place. I do that on engineering drawings that are going out to vendors. I take meeting notes with pen and paper in cursive. In college, I would write 30 pages of notes in a 1 1/2 hour lecture in cursive. My handwriting density on 33 line 8 1/2 x 11 blue line is approximately equal to single spaced, 10 pitch typing. If the little dears coming out of the public schools want to compete in college against persons properly prepared, they need to learn reading and writing skills. Ditto for mathematics.
Good on you. A reasonable response.
Two words: tablet computing
for a number of years now, a good number of college aged kids have been taking their laptops to class and note taking on them. As the price of the tablets come down (as we are already seeing), they will replace the laptop.
I reject your suggestion that cursive = properly prepared.
I know that 30+ years ago what distinguished me (private school educated) from my public school peers was my ability to organize my thoughts coherently, as I always outlined my projects to greater or lesser detail. It wasn’t my handwriting.
Reading and writing skills don’t have to include cursive. Most folks gave up cursive the minute the schools they attended stopped forcing them to use it. It’s slower for most people, and sloppier. It’s nice that you continued to use it, but it doesn’t mean everybody else, or frankly ANYBODY else, should ever use it again. The primary drawback of cursive is that it’s basically a secondary lettering system that looks nothing like the primary English lettering system. Handwritten print letters look basically the same as the letters used for mechanical/ electronic print. There’s simply no reason for people to learn 2 depictions of the same language, frankly there never was a good reason for cursive to exist, it was just there to be pretty, but really that’s just turd polish. If a person can’t put together words in a way to make them pretty making the letters pretty doesn’t improve the words.