Handwriting is no longer taught in the public schools

[BandGuy]

I am in the over 40 crowd and I most certainly learned cursive writing in elementary school. I use it so seldom though except to sign my name, I can no longer remember how to form all of the letters. When I am forced to write something by hand I find printing to be far faster than writing in cursive. In my job, I never have to write, except to sign reports. Everything else I do, I do on a keyboard. Outside of the discipline aspect of teaching writing, I see no great loss. Writing styles have changed throughout history, and they will more than likely continue to do so.

Here's the thing I don't understand.  I write a lot of notes in my bible and use handwritten notes all the time as reminders etc.  Do other people who takes notes print everything?  Cursive is so much quicker.  I simply can't understand the logic.  Even though people don't write letters like they used to, printing everything reminds me of when I was in the first grade.

Electronic Bible with typed notes.  There are even electronic signatures these days.  The day is coming when handwriting will be obsolete.

 

[Ransom]

The day is coming when handwriting will be obsolete.

Doubtful. They've been predicting the "paperless office" for decades. Just one look at my office desk would prove what a laugh that is. By the same token, no one is going to fire up an electronic device to do what you can do faster and simpler with a pencil and a Post-It note.

 

[BandGuy]

The day is coming when handwriting will be obsolete.

Doubtful. They've been predicting the "paperless office" for decades. Just one look at my office desk would prove what a laugh that is. By the same token, no one is going to fire up an electronic device to do what you can do faster and simpler with a pencil and a Post-It note.

I actually am 40 and am already doing most of my business either on the computer or my cell phone.  Very rarely do I pick up paper and pencil anymore.  If that is true of me at 40, how much more true will it be for my almost 9 year old son?

 

[ThatGirl]

The day is coming when handwriting will be obsolete.

Doubtful. They've been predicting the "paperless office" for decades. Just one look at my office desk would prove what a laugh that is. By the same token, no one is going to fire up an electronic device to do what you can do faster and simpler with a pencil and a Post-It note.

Kind of like "wireless".  Ever look behind a wireless router?  LOL! 

 

[HeDied4U]

My wife teaches and gives the SAT test and now finds many students can no longer sign their names.  I had no idea the children were  being dumbed down to this degree.

It gets even worse.  They're not learning hieroglyphics either.  :

WHAT?!?!? When did schools stop teaching hieroglyphics?? I struggled mightily learning them when I was in high school. Barely passed with a C-

The quality of eduction in this country has definitely taken a nosedive since my HS days.

 

[wheatpenny]

I learned to read Hieroglyphs in college (my minor was Egyptology).