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

[hunter]

150. The last time I was in the E.R. the doctor was accompanied by a medical scribe...

... who was entering all my information on an electronic tablet.

When I worked in a blood bank we were simply not allowed to use handwritten notes for anything critical. Everything had to go through the computers. There was a backup plan in case a nuclear attack or other catastrophe took out all the computers and everyone was supposedly trained for that, but honestly, running everything manually using procedures and paperwork developed during the Korean War would have been mayhem. Patients would have died.

I still struggle to read and write cursive. Grades five through seven were a misery for me until I learned to type. It was a significant learning disability that made me hate school.

Things change. We'll probably never return to the days when every "well educated" person had beautiful cursive handwriting, read and wrote Classical Latin, and knew their way around the Bible.