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Anyone know what research the minister is referencing? The academic later quoted said there wasn't much research. I also wonder what was the basis for dropping cursive... The article appears to be just a bunch of cheering with little substance or context.
Personally I just dislike cursive and always have. Other people's cursive writing is a pain in the he ass to read much of the time. The speed benefit is crushed by legibility issues. Doing a lot of genealogy research for example really underscores this, when most documents were hand written in cursive. .Yeah, great I can read cursive, but it is so often tedious and painful to decipher. There is a reason many forms came to say "print clearly". Just my opinion and experience.
Not a super big deal either way, but so far I'm glad my kids didn't have to bother with cursive. Artist, musician and computer programmer. Bilingual. Cursive-free!
Also, in this day and age where we write 95%+ using a keyboard, I find that advocating a speed benefit when writing by hand is pretty pointless.
My daughter had learning disability, and having to learn to write 2 different alphabet (cursive and not) would have been. A pain... One was enough