Are we losing the ability to write by hand?

I never really had the ability to write by hand. My handwriting was always reprehensible. I received multiple D's in handwriting on my report card, which was otherwise straight A's.

That was in the 70s. I suppose that today I probably would be diagnosed with some kind of learning disorder. Perhaps that might even have done me some good.

But I also suspect that the recommendation would be "learn to type", because that's a good workaround. I got a computer in the early 80s and stopped turning in handwritten assignments. Except for my poor math teachers, since my Osborne 1 didn't do LaTeX.

Of course, I'm in the minority. Most people do seem to learn how to write neatly, and it's a good skill to have. Even I jot down notes. We still need to teach something in that vein. But I think it's probably not worth the vast amount of experience I got with it, all of it painful and with terrible results.

Public schools around me dropped cursive writing years ago. Old-school Montessori schools (those that follow Assoc. Montessori International - AMI at least) seem to be the only places keeping cursive alive. They teach cursive before print in some cases.