It seems as though a lot of people hate cursive. Another emailer:

You are quite correct that cursive is a dead art. I’m 24 and haven’t been able to do it since I’ve been 14. I went to a Catholic elementary school in which everything was done in cursive. I hated it, particularly because I had awful handwriting. Around 7th grade I went to a public junior high school. I vowed never to use cursive again. I actually wound up typing everything on my new computer. A few years ago someone asked me to write a sentence in cursive and I couldn’t do it. Nor did I care. It’s cumbersome, it’s difficult to read and it’s a waste of time.