The Common Core State Standards, introduced in 2010, did not include cursive writing. As a result, many states and school districts eliminated cursive instruction from their curricula. This exclusion limits students' ability to access and interpret historical documents and handwritten materials.
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Modern cursive isn't the same script as official documents though.
The real problem is that they can't sign their own name, or read other signatures.
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Also cursive is actually easier for a machine touch screen reader to interpret. Early handwriting recognition PDAs worked way better with cursive than with print (They get to see the sequence the letters are written in, which is more distinct with cursive than with print even if the letters are harder to read after the fact). So it hasn't become less relevant.