re: My 18 y/o son just called me, can't read cursive note left by owners he's dog-sitting for.

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Write the school a letter asking for a partial refund

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I would think you would need a full refund. If they didn’t teach cursive 10+ years ago, what else didn’t they teach.

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I’m a 41 year old grown woman, and I’m not writing other adults letters and cards in kiddy print.

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The frick, shut it up, Walt.

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I’m a 41 year old grown woman, and I’m not writing other adults letters and cards in kiddy print.

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I assume your e-mails are in cursive font also, huh?

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Why would they stop teaching cursive in school?

It's worth nothing today.

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YOU ARE SO DUMB.....think of all the important historical documents that are written in cursive. If we ever get hit with an EMP and all the little electronic devices that dictate everything to dumb young folks, you'll have to depend on people who can read cursive to know what's in those documents.

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YOU ARE SO DUMB.....think of all the important historical documents that are written in cursive. If we ever get hit with an EMP and all the little electronic devices that dictate everything to dumb young folks, you'll have to depend on people who can read cursive to know what's in those documents.

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before you call people dumb....may actually want to learn how an emp works.

let me guess you think it knocks out cars, cell phones and other small electronics?


but yea lets teach kids cursive so they can be smart like you.

get back on the stick and get that pipe welded and stop playing on your phone old man!!

We had to know it by 4th grade. Our kids have same requirement. They don’t use it often though beyond that because of school tablets for everything

I write almost exclusively in cursive, but most people can’t read my cursive whether they were taught it in school or not.

On the rare occasion I have to leave a hand written note for someone, I usually just use print as a courtesy.

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These millenial kids are so stupid

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Just to be clear, Millennials are birth years 1981-1996

And there it is. I got called by a 26 year old who didn’t know how to use jumper cables.

So you're saying the method is not as important as learning the core part of the subject matter. Like learning to read and write is more important than learning to do it in cursive, which is borderline archaic now and will probably be looked upon as a quaint artifact of the past and primarily an art form sometimes used for calligraphy within one or two generations.