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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Writing in cursive (when you are actually good at it) is way faster and also much less tiring than writing in block letters. So you need cursive if you are expecting or expected to write by hand a lot, like pages and pages of it. This was more or less the case for every educated person until recently, but nowadays with computers it’s become a far less useful skill of course. So no reason really other than custom/tradition.

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