[Mel1973]

Originally Posted by Laurent

That's beyond scary, and straight into terrifying. I was reading an article yesterday about how the art of penmanship, and writing in general, are dying thanks to keyboards. Instead of learning how to spell and write legibly, these little bastards are learning how to hit backspace and spell check.

I don't think cursive is even being taught any more to 3rd graders - instead they learn to hunt and peck on a keyboard using that infernal textspeak. Go look at papers written 100-200 years ago, the language and handwriting are impeccable.

My son was in third grade this year and he did learn cursive ... shedevil also had one in third grade...