My school years are pretty far behind me. Sure, math classes would be handwritten, but in college that's not a large number of people or a large number of classes. It's also mostly numbers. So I'm not sure how it applies to cursive. The little bit of cursive needed for formulas could really be picked up on the fly.

I don't think I've heard anyone advocate for getting rid of handwriting. All I'm saying is I got very out of practice after leaving school. In school handwriting was almost exclusively for personal use. I toyed with digital note-taking at the time and realized it was terrible.

> the difference between that and cursive isn't that large

:shrug: Like I said above, the three or so generations I've seen in the US got a couple years of cursive, never saw the value in maintaining it on their own and got very out of practice. The distinction is strong enough that decades old references stick around in my head [1]. A lot of people live with terrible block handwriting. I took an online class and started handwriting notices and realized how out of practice I was with block writing because of how illegible it was and how soon my hand started cramping. I never got comfortable enough with cursive to be faster and/or more legible than block handwriting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wguuKpRJRE