Russian Cyrillic is hand-written exclusively in cursive. Children are never even taught how to write block letters.
The author may be right to argue that cursive has no decisive advantage over block letters, "so why teach it?", a more fundamental question to my mind is why bother teaching _both_ forms of hand-writing? If we have to pick one, why privilege block letters over cursive, if both are equally effective?
Edit: anecdotally, I write cursive cyrillic faster than I write block letter English, and Russian isn't even my native language.
The author may be right to argue that cursive has no decisive advantage over block letters, "so why teach it?", a more fundamental question to my mind is why bother teaching _both_ forms of hand-writing? If we have to pick one, why privilege block letters over cursive, if both are equally effective?
Edit: anecdotally, I write cursive cyrillic faster than I write block letter English, and Russian isn't even my native language.