Comment by makeitdouble

There seems to be a whole cultural battle pitting people who don't give a damn, and hardcore cursive fans who will make shift studies after studies to somewhat prove that cursive is the bees' knees. I get the feeling Montessori would mostly appeal to the later crowd.

Somewhere in it there must be real science, but damn is it hard to find.

At this point I'm more prone to take an out of context look, and try to assert what exactly happened where cursive got phased out, or more generally, how it goes for cultures that don't teach cursive at all.

For instance do Korean kids face severe issues because cursive hangul isn't taught in school ?

If not, we can go back looking at it like a preference or an alternative that can help in very specific scenarii.