26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive

theodp writes "Back in 1942, Chicago mail-order house Spiegel's looked to handwriting analysis to identify inconsistent, unreliable, poorly adjusted people. Ah, those were the days. TIME reports we are witnessing the death of handwriting, noting that Gen Y struggles with cursive and the group following them has even less of a need for good penmanship. And while the knee-jerk explanation is that computers are to blame for our increasingly illegible scrawl, literacy prof Steve Graham explains that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. 'Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore,' he says. So much for 100 Years of Handwriting Success!"

Comments

This is not an isolated problem!

[WheelDweller]

Civics and history have suffered, too; that's how we voted for a guy with 150 DAYS of experience, without asking who his icons were. Most people don't know how the government works, and when voters don't understand the process, the media tells them who to vote for.

"Vote Smith for change!" or "Vote Clyde for the children!" all sound good, but with modern bills, named for their opposites, like the "Freedom of Choice" bill that takes away the choice of working for a union, and makes the vote no longer secret AND permits the thugs to park on your door, where's the choice?

I keep tellin' ya: it's a coup. That's pronouced "COO" and is a French word roughly meanging takeover-of-the-government, for all of you in Government School like I was.

If you are seeing my handwriting...

[lordsid]

If you are seeing my handwriting it is for one of three reasons.

1) I'm filling out an application.
2) You are reading my signature.
3) You are reading my notes.

In any of those instances I could actually careless if you can read my handwriting. I hate cursive I always have. I remember my grandmother used to write me letters in cursive. I just stopped reading them because it wasn't worth the eye strain.

I don't know what good reason there is for writing in cursive. I've never heard of one. It just seems to be something that is anachronistic and has no place in a modern society.

To all the dinosaurs who still insist that writing in cursive is important: You can think that but I'm never going to bother read anything you write.