If a person cannot read or write cursive, are they "functionally illiterate?"

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106. I get that you have no clue that hospitals have records that include scanned notes, as does their pharmacy

and patients come in all the time with cursive hand-written notes from previous medical treatment/diagnoses or from English-speaking family members speaking for one who is not fluent--or those speaking for non-compos mentis patients. (that means for you that they are not "with it" since like cursive, common medical Latin is undoubtedly not in your "wheelhouse" and is likewise a part of medicine not going away no matter how "outdated" to the lay public... All the more reason you should not be speaking to that which you have zero understanding. Many fields have educational requirements. Why some think they should be exempted from these and whine and moan about it is immaterial. To hire those who cannot fulfill those basic requirements is to put lives at risk and your complaints won't matter. Nor should they.

There is a reason education is necessary to work in the medical and related fields. And that includes basic functional literacy--as 24 states have now come to realize and have either replaced cursive in school curriculums or are in the process of passing legislation to do so. More will follow. I do not make excuses for willful ignorance nor diminish the need for education. Nor should YOU as that is something the RW does-- not those who respect the need for an educated populace to protect our constitution and democracy. The latter likewise means being able to READ those vital original documents--not wait for AI to REINTERPRET them for some authoritarian's very malign objectives.