A technique once used to ensure ink did not drip off your quill is of little to no value today. It became useless as soon as we had ball point pens. Some time in high school I decided I would never write in cursive again. It seemed to me pointless to go to that effort only to make my nice neat architectual lettering harder to read. Yet the subject keeps coming up again as the myths about it flow anew. This Metaverse post links to an article from 2016 making what would be my case: "the grip that cursive exerts on much of teaching practice is sustained only by a disturbing blend of traditionalism, institutional inertia, folklore, prejudice, and bribery. It suggests that what teachers 'know' about how children learn is sometimes more a product of the culture in which they're immersed than a result of research and data."
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