[TomSmedley]

My 6-year-old is doing just fine learning it at home.
Sneaky homeschool bump!

My home school kids learned to type by age 7. To this day, their hand lettering looks as though it froze at that point! (I've heard nice things about "cursive italic" and consider learning it myself...)

[Outlaw76]

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, once you reach adult life cursive becomes a rare sight indeed. I agree that it is becoming a lost art as we age, and that thier are better uses of that time. As an art cursive is a lowly form, I suggest instead that some time be used to teach kids how to read it, and the rest of that time be used to teach caligraphy. Caligraphy would help with both normal writing and script. It would also teach a discipline and apreciation for writing.