The argument isn’t that cursive is useless, but rather it isn’t useful enough to warrant spending the amount of time that is required to drill the muscle memory into children. Learning to read cursive is relatively easy and can be done easily on one’s own if they happen to be exposed to cursive writing and need to read it. But no one has a meaningful need to write in cursive because we don’t use feather quills anymore.

I spent a considerable amount of time being forced to do something that ultimately my disabilities will never allow me to do. I was degraded and humiliated because I couldn’t write cursive. I was punished and told I was lazy and careless and then forced to do it even more than the other students. I still carry shame with me. And it was all essentially pointless; we even knew it at the time!

Shit like this is just about grinding down children and making them good worker units.