I just read a post on sourcefednews about how cursive writing is becoming obsolete, so obsolete in fact that the Kansas Board of Education is debating on eliminating it from the school's curriculum and instead teaching the kids to type.
At first I was a little taken aback because I really like to handwrite (....okay, when I can be bothered), but then I thought...in what career do you really need to be able to write cursive? Is it so essential that it needs to be taught, or would it be more beneficial to have typing classes?
Children will still be taught how to write (I assume...), just not all joiny uppy. To be fair, at 23-years-old, most of my letters don't connect with each other when I write, and I was taught cursive in primary school, so I obviously took a lot from those lessons...
When I first read this article, I think that I was thinking about handwriting in general being replaced by the digital age of iPads, laptops, and iPhones as opposed to good ol' pen and paper. It's on a level with books being replaced by e-readers and that's a little scary....but WHY is it scary? Does it need to be scary?
What do you guys think about cursive being replaced? Is it a big deal?
I think it is a sad reflection on society as a whole. We are becoming so (too) dependent upon electronic devices that do all our work (and most of our thinking) for us. We have lost the personal and interpersonal touches to our lives. I keep in the back of my mind the curiosity of what would happen if we were suddenly faced with a non-electric world (i.e., Revolution TV show?)
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