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

[hlthe2b]

51. No. I am trying to remain patient with someone who has no clue what I'm talking about

and doesn't even try to imagine. I don't condone embracing ignorance--which can and has been deadly in some settings and that is what you are promoting. Do you really think given all the non-English speaking patients we see sans interpreters that they just happen to have their medical notes from Chennai, India written in perfect block print? Or that you have the right to demand everyone be as ignorant to written notes, just because you prefer to be? Cursive writing is fast and when practiced is highly readable. That is why people still use it. Whether you like it or not. And to expect students to learn to read it (and hopefully to write it) is not just to inconvenience them, but it is an invaluable means to develop and train their brains. It also makes them employable. Even while they haven't learned to speak or write in complete sentences after the advent of 140-character social media posting.

And should you ever visit a busy ER, kindly ask them how often they have had their entire computer systems go down--especially overnight-- and how they had to handle it. I can guarantee you it was not with block print notes.