Should Cursive Writing Be Taught In School

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I think cursive writing should be taught in school. The reason being is because it's people in everyday life who don't even have the chance to learn how to write period.That's how people loose the best thing that ever happen to them in life. Back in the day people didn't even have those rights to do so in life. So people shouldn't even complain on what people do or, don't do in life. Like it's says in one of the passage" what if computer do become extinct" we go need to learn how to do cursive writing again , and learn the process. So why wait until something do happen and you can always be prepaired for it before it happen. Also a lot of human learning abilities come from challenges we have in our

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