Is writing in cursive rare?

I'm 19. When I was in elementary school, we only learned cursive in the 3rd grade and that was it. After that, very, very few teachers ever asked us to write in cursive. And I'm sure most kids my age already forgot most if not all cursive by the time they were in the 8th grade.

I can read most cursive, but not write it as fast as regular print. Again, goes back to my lack of practice. For me, my only 'formal' cursive lessons were over 12 years ago and pretty much no practice after that.

But it really depends on the schools. Some schools put emphasis in calligraphy, while others not so much. I think our local private schools do put quite a bit of time into teaching cursive but the public schools I've been to, no very much.

starting in the 1980's schools here pretty much quit teaching actual cursive handwriting. But given all the baby boomers still around, a lot of people still write in cursive.

I was taught to write in cursive with a fountain pen. My school had 900 students in 1962, in Oakland, California, USA.

I am from the US and always write in cursive. It's so much faster. Idk how rare it is. With technology going the way it is, I don't think many Americans write much at all. So, I could see how cursive could go extinct. Also, children in the US learn print first, and type is in print.

Most Americans can write in cursive though the number is shrinking. In my generation, I'm 53 years old, the ability to write in cursive was near universal. Since the advent of the computer generation however, the time to teach children to write in cursive seems to have taken a backseat to learning keyboard skills.

Nowadays it seems many children can write with a keyboard, and their thumbs, but don't have cursive writing skills.

Most people nowadays use the computer more than doing hand-written stuff. So, cursive style is not often taught, not just in the USA, but in many countries.

Hell, most people don't have a signature anymore!

(BTW, I do calligraphy, but there's little call for it anymore, so I use a modified "print" that serves as a cursive style for had-written material.)