Here's a sample of my cursive writing! I wrote this with a fountain pen my best friend bought me from Japan for Christmas.
I think I was one of the last cohorts to learn cursive (D'Nealian style) back in the 2010s, in elementary school. Actually, since I went to an international school for a while during my childhood before moving, I learned cursive first and then print, although calling my preschool handwriting "cursive" instead of "illegible scribbling" is very generous. Anyways, in my new school we learned it around third or fourth grade and I used it for a while, until I believe sixth grade when I switched back to print.
I used print exclusively for a long time until sometime during eleventh grade, when I decided to switch back for a few reasons. One, I think cursive is just so much prettier and nicer in general compared to print, which comes off to me as boring and uglier compared to cursive, and secondly, my print writing seems to have frozen in time around third grade, so it's really atrocious. Meanwhile, somehow, even though I didn't write in cursive for ages, my cursive writing magically got better over the years, and it not only looks legible, but I've actually gotten a surprising amount of compliments on my cursive writing! Finally, handwriting will never be obsolete, so no matter what people say, cursive will never be obsolete.
I really love cursive and think it looks much nicer, plus I feel like it's less generic---people's cursive can say things about them, in a way. My only worry is that, since I'm going to be a teacher and sadly very few kids are taught cursive today, I might have to make a concession to the modern world and write in print in the classroom---although I'd debate my cursive is still much more legible even if you don't know how to read cursive, LOL. I wrote my cousin a letter last summer and my aunt had to help him "decode" what it meant! Though to be fair, he is home-schooled with quite a non-traditional curriculum.
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