How did cursive become basically a requirement for schools?

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I would assume maybe it because of history and school system being shitty.

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Answer 1

It’s a much faster way to write by hand. Computers have not been cheap enough that every student in school can be presumed to have one until very recently (and in some districts not yet). So if you have to write homework by hand, cursive is much faster than D’Nealian (what you probably call “printing”).