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The Lost Virtue of Cursive

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM   
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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Original Submission

• Re:Cursive (Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday November 02 2016, @11:40PM

  by charon (5660) on Wednesday November 02 2016, @11:40PM (#421884) Journal

  Maybe I'm an old man yelling at the sky, but I loathe that my kids have been issued iPads in middle school. It necessarily limits what they do to what the software will allow, as well as allowing distractions at every turn. My daughter has started failing classes because she can't do her homework on the iPad without ending up surfing or listening to music. And I can't take it away like another electronic gadget because the school requires her to do work with it.

  Parent