It just f***ing is, ok? Edit: sorry, wrong kind of cursive

It is faster to write

It means you can read historical documents, which is an important skill for certain types of research, and old family letters that you find hidden in a shoebox in the attic, and the notes your grandmother wrote in the margins of her cookbooks.

Sure, I'll bite. It teaches fine motor skills, it gives you more presicion, can teach you patience, a new skill, it's pretty to look at and a fine hobby to have. It's like learning a dead language. No it's not necessarily but it's a good skill to have and it's fine if you're not into it but dismissing it because you don't see the merit is pretty close minded. Oh and it makes your blank Birthday Cards look ultra fly. Everyone asks me to write greetings for them because of my writing.

cursive is a lot faster than print, and also being able to write legibly by hand is still a life skill that helps you communicate well. if you live with others, you need to be able to write things down that others can read in order to communicate little things, like phone numbers, or notes from an important call or meeting, or shopping lists, or even littlee notes like 'i fed the cat'. If nobody can read your writing then how are you meant to do that?

To make your signature distinctive, and potentially difficult to forge. Anyone can print, but if you’ve ever seen examples of signatures written in cursive, you’ll understand what I mean.

Just because it's a beautiful writing form.

It’s pretty and you at least need to be able to read it.

A lot of people still use cursive in daily life, and if you can't at least READ cursive, you won't be able to read what they write. I saw a thing online where a woman handed a note to a Subway employee and they posted it online, and a ton of people couldn't read the note because it was in (legible) cursive.

These days it’s like having an extra skill or knowing a secret language or even creating art.

If we stopped learning cursive in general - it will become at the best a lost "language" and at the worst - a barrier between the rich and the poor. The private schools would still teach it and much will be written, but those who go to public school will not be able to read the literal writing on the wall.

On top of the all other very good reasons here, it's a good thing have in your arsenal because older generations continue to use it and knowing how to write it will also help you know how to read it. My grandma handwrites thank you notes to us in cursive, my dad writes in birthday cards in cursive, I'm a 90's kid and I write in a cursive/print hybrid. Beyond family, most of us work in a multigenerational workforce, and odds are you may need to read something handwritten by someone else in cursive. My job, for example, is in the legal field and a lot of our lawyers write in cursive because, as mentioned in the other comments, it's faster and many of them are older so it was also a standard for them.

Apart from anything else, it's beautiful. When I was working temp back in the late 70s early 80s, I got a lot of jobs addressing envelopes due to my good cursive writing.

Everybody loves you when you have a good handwriting. Or at least, they love your handwriting.

Cursive was designed to be ergonomic. You can write nearly forever in cursive because you barely lift your hand from the paper. Less hand and wrist pain compared to standard writing

Sign contracts.

It is helpful for a kid with dyslexia for one, two how do you ever plan on being able to read a source document from before 2010?

i never cared much about it until they decided to stop teaching it in schools, now it seems valuable as a secret language

Mainly so you can read it if you come across it. :-)

Note taking.

Basically it is just faster.

As a former teacher I concur that cursive is an important tool. It creates important pathways in the brain and taking notes in cursive helps to imprint material to be learned.

Because people still have to sign things: like contracts and tax returns. AND, checks because not everyone has a bank account and/or direct deposit.

Because literally ANYONE can type your name in as a digital signature or print your name on paper.

Because if power and or internet go out for a long time,you would know how to write a letter. Learn “manual” maths as well Why are markers,pens,crayons and chalk still being manufactured.

It's just quicker and easier. No internet connection required.

Let's see your signature?

Do really want to buy a house or a car, sign a marriage certificate with: printed JOHN E SMITH, rather than a real signature?

Do they even teach writing in school anymore? What is going to happen with the batteries die in your device and there is no power to recharge from is available? You always need a plan b and not just rely on one thing to get you through the day.

For one thing, it makes the writer look like they're older than eight years of age, for another, it is a personal identifieir, you can recognize someone by their cursive handwriting. Nowdays, it appears that students never learn to do other then block print. How sad.

Because it is faster and more easy on your hand and arm, that is provided you are not lefthanded like me .

How else are you going to sign you mortgage documents? Court documents? other legal paperwork? Are you going to write out your name in printed block letters?

So that when you're accidentally transported 2000 years into the future, you'll be the only one who can read what our great great grandparents wrote in An archeologist's dream.

I was forced to write in cursive 3rd and 4th grade. Now my print is almost illegible.

It’s not

I do cause I still don’t know cursive yet

I was taught cursive by my mother (who still has beautiful writing) then when I went to school it was no longer in fashion (darn you to heck Marian Richardson!). Now my writing is a mish mash but it's clearer than my printing, so there's that

You don't have to use it. It's just good to know and/or hone your handwriting skill. I actually have great handwriting, my printing looks great, but part of that is because I got used to the hard stuff (cursive) first