The New Yorker wonders:
My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can't escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every year, there are worried articles about the decline of cursive and its omission from school curricula. And there's a backlash, one that I secretly cheer for. When I read that Washington state is now considering Senate Bill 6469, "an act related to requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools," I gave a little fist pump in the air.
Cursive and handwriting are dead. Communication of the future will be done with pure emoticons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @11:55AM
That's different. You were not taught BBC Micro, you were taught programming or word processing.
Kids nowadays are not taught word processing, they are taught Microsoft Word 2016 (not to be confused with 2018, which will have the ribbon laid out differently). The older kids are not taught math, they are taught Maple. And so on and so forth.