I love to write things out by hand. I don't think it hurts kids to teach them to learn cursive. Yes, most communication occurs electronically but if you work in an archive like me you realize that learning to write in cursive helps you to read it too. Students come in all the time to use correspondence written during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century and they cannot even read it. How are you going to research papers for history classes in college if you can't even read the primary documents? And no, not everything can be found online!