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People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The simple explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl. The simple fact is that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. These teens aren't alone in the struggle. An entire generation is forgetting the proper loops and swirls of cursive.
Kids can't read cursive if they don't know how to write it, and I hear from a lot of parents how surprised they are when their child gets a card from grandma and grandpa, and they can't read it.
Nowadays cursive is no longer required to be taught in school. Keyboarding, however, is now required by third grade.
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