Who hand-writes any professional correspondence these days?I write cursive because it's faster and it looks better. Printing looks like it's done an ignorant toddler. Any job application I get goes in the trash if its been filled out with printed script. The better be typed on a computer or filled out in cursive. The abandonment of the art of writing is just one more example of the dumbing down of standards in public schools.
I write print for legibility purposes. Even the prettiest cursive is hardly legible compared even to toddler-level print. And my handwriting was never that good before I abandoned it, anyway.