The Lost Art of Writing (Cursive, That Is)

I read this article over the weekend, and got into a Twitter discusison this morning about it.

Basically, the article talks about schools eliminating the teaching of cursive writing to its students because they're priming students for 21st century schools, i.e. everything via computer, nothing by hand. Really? So writing by hand is being lost? I don't agree.

My initial reaction was one of shock. And maybe that's because I'm older and the thought of children not being taught cursive writing...