I do handwritten notes all the time, but I don't write in cursive. I print, because it's easier to read. My parents both have beautiful cursive handwriting, but my printing is still easier to read. I'm all for kicking it to the curb in the name of clarity.
I block print everything. It's been 25-30 years since I needed to write in cursive. I was always bad at cursive but years of mechanical engineering classes taught me to block print and I get compliments on how legible my handwriting is because of it.
I PRINT IN ALL CAPS WHEN I WRITE BY HAND.
any time i write by hand, i have to print. my cursive is terrible, i have had trouble deciphering it at times. i can write faster than i can print, but if someone else needs to read it, i print. honestly, my printing is pretty bad too.
I darn-near had to repeat the 3rd grade (around 1979) because my cursive was so horrible. Thank heaven I'm a technical guy and type 99% of my stuff and the remaining 1% is written in block-style capital letters.
I have handwriting even doctors can't decipher. When I try to do cursive its even worse.
Good riddance to something that went out of style before computers ever came around.
Sounds more like a problem of implementation than methodology.