Kentucky

Lots of hours were wasted in getting me to mediocre at best cursive. It took me longer to take notes in cursive in high school/college so I switched to a modified print (some elements of cursive still retained).

I guess so argument could be made about cursive helping to organize thoughts. On the other hand I could think of better uses for the time. For some (maybe many) if you keep your cursive up, then you can take notes faster. That is not the case for me though. Learning it was the worst part of my elementary academic experience. I wrote a great deal (fiction stories). My parents got me a top of the line typewriter (my brother got a drum set).