Cursive has it's place and I think it should still be taught in schools. I learned cursive but I never use it-even my signature is nothing but a big loop and then some lumpy scribbles after that. I work as a cashier while going to school and it drives me crazy when people stand there carefully scripting out their signature.

You can't really compare a math skill set to cursive writing, either. Some people here were doing that and it just isn't comparable. Even if you have a calculator, you still need to know HOW to calculate. If someone says Add two plus two and you don't know what an Add sign looks like, you're screwed. If someone says what is 26% of 500, you are totally screwed. I know because I am terrible at math and all the calculators or computers in the world couldn't help me through math problems in calculus.