Cursive is Dead

Wierd.. I was thinking about just this thing the other day when I signed my name on something. I don't sign things very often at all, and frankly, I'm not sure I could write in cursive anymore. I use sort of a modified standard script when I write, and that's not very often..

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Charleston resident Kelli Davis was in for a surprise when her daughter brought home some routine paperwork at the start of school this fall. Davis signed the form and then handed it to her daughter for the eighth-grader's signature.

"I just assumed she knew how to do it, but I have a piece of paper with her signature on it and it looks like a little kid's signature," Davis said.

West Virginia's largest school system teaches cursive, but only in the 3rd grade.

"It doesn't get quite the emphasis it did years ago, primarily because of all the technology skills we now teach," said Jane Roberts, assistant superintendent for elementary education in Kanawha County schools.

In a way, I'm disspointed in the destruction of hand writing. It's a natural result of technology, but still.. humanity's use of script has been as much art as communication, and I think hand writing says a lot about a person.

There will come a day.. probably in our lifetimes, where the kids will have no idea what a pen is.