Cursive writing a DEAD SKILL???

[SheilaT]

30. There are so many reasons to learn cursive

as others here have already noted.

One important thing is to be able to take notes by hand. People who do that retain far more information than those who use a keyboard. I'm not surprised.

Plus, if no one learns cursive, somewhere down the road all hand-written things will be totally unreadable, which is a scary thought. Or only ascended masters will learn to read cursive, and will then have enormous control over old knowledge. Not a good thing. We'll be back in the days when only a tiny fraction of the population could read and write. Yes, I get it that everyone will be able to read and type/text, but if a significant portion of what's out there cannot be read by them, it will be a type of illiteracy.

Oh, and learning the basics of programming is not a universally needed skill. Back when PCs were first coming out, it was assumed that everyone who got them was going to need to learn programming. The example most given was that you'd want to use your PC to keep your check book balanced, and you'd need to write the program for that. Instead we have Quicken, and Word, and Excel, and all sorts of programs. The vast majority of us will never have to program a computer.