I can't think of anyone in college that wrote their notes in cursive. That included every official notetakers notes I saw (some classes had official notes that went online) any friends I borrowed, remember sitting next to, and my own.I'm a bit confused??? My DD has a laptop for middle school as do all middle and high schoolers in our county. My comment was specific to note taking as that was where knowing cursive was important because it's so much faster.