Oh, these dang whipper snapper kids today. First they won't read
newspapers. Then they insist on text messaging or IMing instead of
talking to each other. Now they've really done it: They refuse to write in cursive. 
As Jezebel reports -- citing a story that originally appeared in UPI and the Sacramento Bee
-- many students are shunning loopy, lovely penmanship because, in a
world where they type on keyboards or text message on mobile devices,
they have no need for that nutty longhand writing stuff. Schools are
still going through the motions of teaching cursive, but, as one
teacher says, the kids won't use it. When they do have to write
something down, they opt to print instead.
Of course, this is
hardly surprising news. But it makes me wonder whether in twenty years,
younger generations will even know how to craft one of those pesky
cursive "z"s. Hell, I actually wrote a lot of schoolwork by hand and
even I sometimes stumble over that one.
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