Indiana Dumps Cursive For Keyboarding Skills

This is some interesting stuff for sure.  The progressive state and home to the Indy 500, Indiana, has decided to drop cursive writing from their school curriculum.  The idea behind this is to teach our children the skills they need to live in a digital world rather than the analog world dependent on the written word.

I still remember taking a typing class in high school, I also remember writing papers on my Tandy 1000 in Jr High and I did quite well growing up.  Had I not learned cursive I would have never learned how to sign my art or even sign the back of my credit card.  This simply brings the end to autographs and sports memorabilia and makes it harder to fight identity theft.

The CCSI says future generations will need to master the keyboard; cursive, not so much. In fact, keyboarding is considered such an important skill that students will need to be able to type out reports by the end of the third grade.

Sadly my reoccurring thought in response to this is those movies where you see guys signing their name with a big X because they never learned how to read or write.

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