Incoming student mindset...

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I think they teach keyboarding, which is a fancy term for what they called in my day "Typing".

How many of us old guys ever write in cursive? I know that I sometimes curse in my writing, but I can't remember the last time I ever wrote in cursive or a situation where it would be necessary to write in cursive.

Perhaps it is a good thing that this "technology" is being dropped?

We were still taught cursive through grade school when I was there... and I remained a fair writer in same, when I took the time to do it "right." But by the end of grade school I had developed my own handwriting style which was a mix of cursive and print, depending on which got stuff on the page faster. I expect a lot of people did the same. By high school pretty much everything that involved major amounts of writing had to be turned in as a typewritten document anyway. Writing by hand was pretty much limited to answers on tests and overnight homework.

Now with the advent of the personal computer, I can say with no hesitation that my handwriting has deteriorated to the point that I am perfectly capable of scribbling down something in a hurry that even I can't read if I come across it again after having forgotten what I was scribbling about in the first place. Consequently when I have to write a note out by hand - which happens lot at work, Post-its being a primary means of interoffice communication on various documents that have to pass from person to person to person to person and back again - I make myself write it out in (mostly) block letters to ensure that it's legible to anyone who has to read it.