What happened to cursive writing?!

[3kmichael]

There are many wrongs with our education system, but this vital aspect of it I had tripped over is most concerning, to me at least it is. What I, and probably most of us failed to notice is the gradual extinction of handwriting as a skill. I, being taught cursive at the age of 7 with penalties for writing in a non-pretty way never really paid attention to American students not having cursive skill, and upon examining my 2nd grade siblings homework assignment went to the nearest church to pray. The handwriting was simply atrocious, there was a whole folder of papers where teachers just ignore the messiness of the assignment. In fact, most teachers accept any assignment as long as it is it somewhat of a comprehensive condition. But since the young age, children are not pressured to do their best, to create something beautiful, they are focused on writing Common Core papers on some irrelevant topic from a decade ago. Now, apparently after a research I've discovered that most of US does not teach handwriting anymore, and most states are leaning towards computers as a method of transmitting information. Computers, in our day and age, are a wonderful application of technology for the good of all, but using computers to do the most basic life functions is wrong. It is not wrong on technical means, sure, all of us will be able to have the same handwriting and possibly save paper, but in reality that is completely unnecessary. Apparently, Finland actively uses computers to replace books, which is itself gives me ambivalent feelings. Yes, we need to conserve paper, but at the same time, it is truly upsetting that our generation can no longer afford paper books, nor can it make high quality books. I mean, long ago a book would cost a lot, but now with the resources we have, we fail to produce books that can match those written by some old monk five centuries ago. I do admit that we just entered this age of technological innovation, but at the rate we are taking away so much reality and physical contact with knowledge and the world, our children will soon not know how to open up books. Even recently, in the George Zimmerman trial, one of the witnesses failed to testify as she could not read the cursive-written document a lawyer handed to her. I mean, really? Our handwriting says a lot about us, it is our permanent words, and removal of the comprehension of those is something wrong. It is almost as if the generation is taking away all of the human individuality, their stridence to be excellent, and replacing it with an easier and less personal path. Instead of filling our lives with unnecessary machinery, we need to find away with that same machinery to address our current issues, like stopping deforestation, maybe decreasing the wastes we produce, after all every American consumes as much as several dozens of people in less developed nations does.
For your entertainment:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/12/is-cursives-day-in-classroom-done/2642071/

HERE'S SOMETHING TO EMPHASIZE ON MY POINT:
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