Imagine my suprise when I came across an elementary principal in a magazine article that proposed that learning cursive writing was a waste of time and shouldn't be taught in the schools. After all - in the age of computers who uses it anymore? And that the approximately 12 weeks spent on teaching kids this skill could be better used to teach reading skills.

If they DO stop teaching cursive writing - why not adding and subtracting? After all that's why we have calculators. The same goes for geography. We all have GPS systems - right?

I'd be interested to hear if any of you feel that cursive writing is not a necessary skill anymore.