Oh, great. This will come in clutch when you get sent back in time and have to write Aunt Tilly from the front line of the Boer War.

I'm sort of confused by this: the point of cursive was to make it more efficient to write quickly, without lifting pen from paper and causing blotting.

In a very "medium is the message" way, it's tied to the pen. In an era of pencils and pens that don't blot (and this little thing called a "keyboard") it really is kind of an anachronism.

Seems like a fair thing to teach considering students will be writing exams by hand most of their lives. Sucks that they just threw curriculum changes so last minute at the teachers without much support.

we learned when i was a kid and NEVER used it at all. I was so stressed out trying to learn it. I already had difficulty printing then they wanted me to learn cursive so i did and then never used it even once.

Teach keyboarding instead, will be a lot more useful.