Why is cursive even taught?

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It just makes other people’s writing harder to read. And do you really save that much time writing cursive vs in print? Like a few seconds at most. But a lot of us are taught cursive early in our lives. Why?

Fyi; this is a question about the practically of cursive, not calligraphy itself. I know a lot of cursive writing can be very pretty and readable, but most people don’t write like that

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There are supposed to be educational studies linking cursive to brain development, as explained here:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain%3famp

But really, this is a case of adults saying, “I had to go through it, so my kids should have to go through it, too.”

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