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Originally Posted by Phogg
I submit to you that business also thinks the way I do.
In Texas, you can no longer cash a check in a bank where you don't have an account on signature ID. Fingerprints are required. they are more secure.
My family has a cleaning business - primarily commercial floor and window work, but some janitorial contracts as well. There is not nearly as much paper waste in offices as there was just six years ago. Paperless offices may not be here yet, but they are rapidly on their way and the movement of making notes on paste its to making notes on smart phones has made a significant drop in trash just the last couple years. Go to office depot and look at the section where they sell sticky notes, Then think of how big a selection they were carrying in 2000.
Legible printing skill is still necessary. Cursive script (I am willing to debate with all comers) is as necessary as a slide rule. It takes too long to learn, considering it will never be needed in the business world these young ones are going to grow up to.
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Your previous post did not seem to take a middle ground.
I happen to agree with you that cursive script is not important. Unfortunately, my brother wasn't even taught to print legibly. His school went one step further than you advocate; they abandoned penmanship entirely. Given that many people say insist on "getting her on a keyboard as soon as possible", do you really think schools will take a middle ground or do you think they will follow my brother's school and abandon penmanship entirely?
Penmanship is more important than computer skills at that age because legible handwriting takes so much time to learn. Use of a computer is much easier. The one part that is time intensive is typing, and that can be learned at home with a piece of software.