Interesting thing about kids not learning cursive

I wondered how long it would be before this exact thing started to happen. Thankfully, mine have all been taught at school. I think it is up to the individual teachers. Sucks when one of the teachers decides it isn't worth it and the following grade the teacher expects them to have learned it.

I'm curious how old the daughter is and what the job was that she needed to be able read cursive.

My DD(18) really struggled with cursive, but it was still being taught when she went through elementary school. Other than reading handwritten notes in cards, I can't think of an occassion she has needed that skill.

My kids are 12-18 and they learned to read/write in cursive.  But they do have trouble telling time on a clock that isn't digital!

It is in my county -- they start toward the end of the year in 2nd grade, and then all year 3rd grade. Then in 4th and 5th they're required to write in cursive for journaling, etc., unless there's some sort of learning difficulty or IEP or whatever that says they don't have to.

Both of my kids went through that same curriculum -- dd can read it and enjoys writing in it (except she can't read my mother's handwriting, but neither can I, at least not easily -- it's a foreign-born old-fashioned writing, and it takes effort to decipher, lol) Ds says he can't read it but I think he's just lazy since I know he learned it. 

That's going to be my silver career, you know the job you have to have when you retire. I'm going to be a script translator. I'll charge a tiny bit extra to translate it to emoji instead of typed english. maybe I'd better set up my website now.

Both of mine were taught script or I would have taught them myself. ( Nearly 17 and. 18.5 years old).

I agree with you--but there are many reasons it isn't taught anymore. There's such an enormous pressure on educators these days to cram in the Common Core standards so that the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessment scores look good (though we have yet to actually see a score...). Then there are other subjects that just keep getting added in. In our district, it's foreign language at the elementary level (district decision), and the State has mandated Social Emotional Learning curriculum. Along with the usual English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies/Science, PE, and Fine Arts, there just isn't much time anymore. 

My ds is a senior in high school. Students in our schools are taught how to make the letters so they can sign their names. They never practice it or use it any further. That is why ds' signature looks like a third grader did it.

Cursive has been in and out of the curriculum for years. I am sure things vary district to district. It is definitely a struggle for teachers everywhere to decide what is important beyond the mandatory curriculum/standards. There is bully proofing, technology, cursive, personal safety, public speaking, and the list goes on and on. There is very little time in the classroom that isn't already spoken for with standards and standardized testing for the district, state, and national levels. With the way technology itself has changed just in just this century, priorities have changed from handwriting to communicating with the current technology that is changing a very fast pace. Now the most current emergencies are school safety and violence in the schools. As our society changes, our time has been refocused in the classroom. Yes, handwriting and cursive have been priorities in the past, but I see the importance of these subjects dropping down the list as new and arguably more important subjects take priority. I think most teachers would love to teach it, but other topics of a higher priority have taken their places. Whenever possible, I wrote out directions in cursive so that kids were seeing daily, but I wasn't taking fifteen minutes a day to teach it.

I don't think they teach it anymore at DD's elementary so I will teach it to her myself in a few years. She's in kindergarten right now and REALLY wants to learn it. I have to keep telling her to practice her printing because that's what her teachers want her to learn to do really well right now.   

ETA: DD's printing right now is more legible than her 12 year old cousin's... And his mom is a teacher!   

Why won't it get used as much?

4 years of college note taking should be reason enough. Cursive is much quicker than printing. 

Don't a lot of the kids take notes on their laptops/tablets these days?

My oldest was in big trouble with his dad and for a while, he insisted that the boy take a picture each time he was in class. (Okay, not my idea, but since dad is the money man he calls the shots.) The boy would take a picture with his cell phone of his class rooms and every kid there had some kind of tablet or laptop set up to take notes with.

But I am with you. Take notes by hand. The muscle movement involved in handwriting notes helps to cement the information.

I would have thought so too. At least here, across numerous classes I've seen 1 person using a laptop. 

I don't think that is universally true. I think writing in your natural style is fastest for note taking - for many people I know, myself included, writing quickly means a hybrid of printing and script. For note taking, the real efficiency is in knowing how to take good notes quickly - developing your own shorthand. The fastest and most efficient way to do that is the way that makes most sense to you.