I just had a huge discussion at a parent/teacher meeting at my kids' school about this. DS has always hated cursive and said he could write faster and more easily in print. But they are required to use cursive in school. I asked the teachers if they could choose to write in print: nope. I explained how my brother - who is an attorney - made it through law school by using print all of his many many notes. You can't read his cursive - and he writes faster when printing. Still a big no from DS's teachers.
I came home and discussed it with DS. He said, "What are you talking about? I love cursive." Oops. I was basing my response on last year, not the current year. He said he's glad the teachers made him learn it because it's much faster. He does know how to keyboard because we bought him a program a few years ago. But at home, when he writes stories (almost daily... loves to write), we make him write them out by hand, then he can type them up later.
What worries me is that the brain taps into a different part of the brain when writing cursive than when printing. A more creative part of the brain. And something entirely different than when typing/keyboarding.