Short answer is that the teachers lack the skill to do cursive themselves.
Longer answer is that they want the education system to be at the lowest common denominator as possible, and wherever possible.
Because it is a vertige of when people used quill pins to write.
Wholly unnecessary since the advent of the modern ballpoint.
If you can’t read cursive, you can’t read the Founding Father/historical documents.
Today’s K-12 can’t even print correctly.
Simple...
Handwriting is evidence of individualism...
Something communists find revolting...
-PJ
Conflating cursive with phonics is disingenuous, at best.
There is no need to read cursive, so why must everyone learn to write it?
I know I often cannot read it, and certainly can no longer write it. This old man is to shaky to make it legible...even to myself.
And everyone learns to read via phonics, whether it’s taught in school or not. It’s universal. And the only real pathway to reading.
Ah the new age of education: Writing in Cursive is bad, cursing while speaking is good.
My parents both learned Gregg shorthand in college. It was a required course in many majors. They used to write each other notes when they didn’t want us to know what they were saying. I will probably be able to do the same thing with cursive if I don’t want my grandkids to know what I am saying.
It must be racist and misogynistic - that’s the answer to everything.
If you cannot write in cursive, how can you sign your name to any type of document?
I had a grade school principal tell me that children do not need to know how to do math because they have calculators and that they do not need to know how to spell because they have spellcheckers.
I’m not seeing the connection between phonics and cursive. Of the two, I think phonics is more important. I had it in the ‘70s and my kids were taught it in combination with very short sight words (the, it, and, etc.)
1931? I was taught phonics in 1963.
Not just cursive. Kids doing online learning from a keyboard have trouble writing with pen or pencil at all.
Being an engineer, I write in all print caps.
I don’t know if that’s a thing for all engineers, or just the ones I work with.
Because if you can read cursive, you can read the original Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and other things like that and know for sure they are all real.
Short answer: They are stupid. The Asians, who have had a continuous civilization for thousands of years and know a few things about the mind, say that writing in cursive helps develops the brain, among other things.
Research has shown that cursive writing, just like learning a musical instrument, improves your brain as a whole and doesn’t simply teach you one function.
These same folks who want to stop teaching cursive are often the same ones happy to spend lots of money to make sure that remote, obscure languages don’t go extinct.