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If public education was limited to things with real world application (for most people) it could end somewhere around 5th grade.I learned cursive in elementary school. The only time I use it is signing my name, and reading "old people" writing. I guess I'm one of those people who thinks teaching cursive is like teaching Latin. It has some value, but very little real world application.
Personally I think most of the push to continue teaching it is just people reluctant to change. They had to learn it as kids, so kids today need to learn it. I don't know anybody under the age of 70 that regularly uses cursive.
If you can't read cursive then you can't read the Declaration of Independence, and that's a good enough reason for learning it IMO. Imagine needing the nation's most important foundational documents translated for you as if they were in a foreign language. It's hard enough already for people to stay focused on the goal.
I'll tell her Aaron said soBTW that is not a cursive capital A. My name starts with A and I was never taught anything that looked like that. A capital A should look kind of like a squished rain drop.