Does your kid know cursive? It's coming back as a requirement to CA schools

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4. Yes. And while computers are used everywhere, so too (in many settings) are quick hand-written notes

I find it beyond sad to think that some younger potential employees will be unable to fulfill even basic tasks that require one to read a cursive letter or note occasionally. The latter is significant in medicine where medical notes and records from all types of clinics (even those overseas)may have to be quickly reviewed before the laborious task of scanning/translating into the computerized medical record can occur--not to mention those times when the entire computer system goes down.

And how damned sad to think some of these individuals will never be able to read the letters of their parents/grandparents or that on display in museums.

Good on California. The removal of cursive writing is one of the most asinine changes to the curriculum in decades. Maybe a few decades from now we can revisit, but for right now those earnest young people will not be getting internships or employment in a lot of areas where such deficits in education MATTER.