It has not been a requirement since 2010, but many schools including a portion of classrooms at Stockton Unified School District continued teaching it.
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That is what cursive has done for hundreds of years, with most of our history written in this style.
I've spent hours and hours in libraries, courthouses and historical societies poring over their records doing research on gold mines and Gold Rush towns. I can't ever recall seeing one that was written in print. If I hadn't learned cursive in school. all that information would've been lost to me.
