Should school kids still learn cursive writing?

Should school kids still learn cursive writing?
Question of the week
Whittier Daily News:  11.18.2013

When it comes to the ways people communicate, the writing is on the wall — and it isn’t handwriting.

Each new generation relies less on pen and paper to put down words and more on keyboards and keypads. The trend is reflected, even encouraged, by U.S. educators. Once a staple of elementary school, learning cursive isn’t part of the new Common Core curriculum adopted by 45 states.

California is one of seven Common Core states where efforts are being made to keep cursive in the lesson plans.

Our Question of the Week for readers is: Should school kids still learn to write in cursive, or is flowing penmanship no longer useful?  READ MORE !

Cursive handwriting: Seven states fight for cursive writing in school (+video)

Cursive handwriting: In the digital age, has good handwriting become obsolete? Why seven states are fighting to return cursive writing to the Common Core curriculum.
C S Monitor: 11.14.2013 by Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press November 14, 2013

That's why at least seven states — California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Utah — have moved to keep the cursive requirement. Legislation passed in North Carolina and elsewhere couples cursive with memorization of multiplication tables as twin "back to basics" mandates.  READ MORE !