I know this will rub people the wrong way, but I don't believe in cursive writing...unless we approach it as an artform like calligraphy.
As a medical person, I've seen horrible medical mistakes from misinterpretations of peoples' writing.
The purpose of writing is to communicate, and print is less ambiguous.
Isaac Asimov made a point about stuff like this. In math classes two hundred years ago, one had to know the difference between a Pennsylvania shilling, an English shilling, a colonial dollar, an the rates of exchange. One had to know a pottle vs. a hogshead vs. a colonial barrell.
There was an English pint, a colonial pint, a French pint, a Scottish pint, and so on.
This type of math was important, because it was easy for people to cheat each other in business transactions over deceptions about weights and measures...so these standards were covered in school so that the enterprising young man could make his way in the world.
I tend to view cursive writing in the same light. There are times when keeping things simple and streamlined are more important than an artistic writing style that obscures communication.
