Consequences of Disappearing Cursive

I am a high-school teacher who writes all my assignments on the blackboard in cursive. It horrifies me that many of my students ask me what it says or to tell them individual letters! What is the world coming to when high-school students can no longer read cursive writing? What do you think about the matter? -- Print-Only World
Answer: What you describe is happening everywhere. Many states and schools no longer have cursive as part of their core curriculum. It is being replaced by keyboarding. This is a generally accepted action, as the Department of Education's Common Core State Standards of the set of skills that students must acquire to succeed in college and careers does not mention cursive but does include manuscript writing and keyboarding. The principle argument against including cursive in the curriculum is that it is old-fashioned and unnecessary in today's computer age, and that keyboarding skills offer more advantages.
The elimination of cursive writing from the curriculum has been done without any research on its benefits to learning for young children. Many educators and psychologists are concerned about the relationship of cursive writing to learning how to read, write, memorize and think critically. They believe that more research needs to be done on how cursive writing can impact learning.