Proponents of cursive say that many of the country's historical documents were written in the fancy script ... you need a signature for autographs,” she told the children.

“It’s kind of fancy ... he had difficulty learning cursive as an elementary school student in the 1970s. Olsen also worries about the loss of cursive’s signature contribution: the ...

Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles ... They print where the signature would be. It’s just little things like that.” ...

“I think it’s more fancy,” he said ... to know how to write their own name and write it in a signature, because you’re going to use that. It’s part of your identity.” Teaching cursive has long been a ...

It requires a certain patience, if not talent, to get the fancy ... cursive is not required to sign or endorse a check or for printed legal documents and contracts. Instead, printed signatures ...

So what's the big deal if your little John Hancock doesn't have a big loopy cursive signature of his own? Antiquated or no, cursive is viewed by some parents and educators as essential to an ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

“We had students not able to read, nor write their signature, in cursive writing … That was unbelievable to me,” she said in February. “To say that we’ve educated children in Tennessee ...

English says there is no legal requirement that a signature needs to be written in cursive. You can print your name. So, what about the separate signature and print lines on forms? English says ...