Cursive writing - being old doesn't mean it has to die!

I'm trying to send this link to as many teachers as I can contact. If you aren't a teacher, then surely you know a teacher. The value in this article below is that a vast body of history will be unavailable to many studious people if their quest for knowledge depends solely on reading documents that are only available in printed or digitized text.
The counter-action to this deprivation would be to inform school board trustees about articles such as are in this link so they might realize their lack of foresight in directing the school curriculum for which they are responsible.
If you have received this from me, please consider passing it on to someone else who might make a difference to what is happening to our youth's comprehension of the world's past.
Sadly, I am unable to pass this message any further than to my English speaking and writing friends!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/shunned-computer-age-cursive-makes-comeback-california-2024-01-27/?user_email=fc89f8ef4936989ae13d4f442226bc6df204063776de74f998644cde7cc08a46

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JollyRoger · 70-79, M

@Allelse Indeed.....your point is well made! And in the reality....it's not the forming of the letters that matters so much as it is the storage of the message. Where do you retrieve a document from cyberspace if for some cataclysmic reason the Internet and computer storage were to fail? Please don't say, "If we're all dead, it won't matter."

But: I suppose you don't put hand to pen and write or draw on paper any more?

Allelse · 36-40, M

@JollyRoger Of course I do, but I use my own Allelse shorthand and I wouldn't inflict it on anybody else. Hah! And even I have trouble reading it, but I have my own system. If I'm out and about and it's story writing time I write in blue or black ink in shorthand in hard art paper, then once my brain is empty I go back and correct the mistakes with red ink. Then once I'm home I type it up.

Printing is no good for me except in revision because of my spastic ADHD brain which runs too quickly, so I need a shorthand to get out the information as quickly as possible or else I go mad, lose my train of thought or the ideas slip away.

JollyRoger · 70-79, M

@Allelse Don't think you're alone with A.D.D. Sometimes I flitter around doing 4 things when I started out doing 1 important thing that never gets done until I wonder what I was supposed to be doing!! Does that sound like you??

Allelse · 36-40, M

@JollyRoger Haha! Yep. A pain in the ass, or I get hyper fixated on something and 6 hours go by.