Michigan

I remember when this debate was going on in my district. My mentor teacher said, "How will they be able to read a letter from their grandmom?". I taught 6th grade and the students had to write in cursive and they actually liked it better than printing. When I taught 1st I had to teach regular printing but the class always pleaded with me to teach them cursive. They thought it looked cooler than printing.

When high school helpers came to my class for 6 weeks. Their printing was strange and I could barely read it and my students couldn't read the comments on graded homework by the high school students.

The past 20 years has produced a style of writing that is neither traditional printing nor cursive. It is a hybrid style that almost looks like graphite. It looks like Greek to me.