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

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151. AGAIN! You TOTALLY MISS THE POINT. Of course hospitals are computerized at every turn. But that

most certainly does not obviate the need to be able to read something that is in handwritten form. I know you have more ability to imagine those situations (as I have outlined throughout this thread) so I can only assume you just want to argue. A simple one from YOUR example would be to imagine what that doctor and scribe would have done if someone had handed them an urgent hand-written note about the patient from a non-present family member in the instance that the patient did not speak English. There are countless myriads of instances like that on a momentary basis in a busy ER.

On this, you are so damned wrong. There are countless reasons why cursive writing is needed now and in the future and I haven't even started to load you down with all the neurological research on hand-eye-brain coordination and "neurological wiring" impacts that learning cursive early in life reinforces (and no, game controllers do not substitute).

So, Hunter. Those who do not know how to read/write in cursive are not illiterate, but they are functionally illiterate (and for those on this thread who do know the difference, look it up!) But a hint. We all have elements of ffunctional illiteracy in our lives. Few here have the skills to direct one of Elon's rockets. That is not a necessary skill for the work that most of us do. But for those who are trying to fly/direct/program/monitor one of his rocket's flights, it involves skills that are mandatory. To lack them makes one FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE in that context. One can gripe and cry and claim that is unfair and have a very immature temper tantrum and blame everyone around you--rather than work to acquire those skills but it isn't going to get you anywhere. So too those jobs where a very simple skill--cursive writing-- is required for practical reasons. Just as a Federal judge decided as well in the case of the negligent, functionally illiterate young woman who sought to blame the hospital for her own failures and lack of a basic educational component, rather than to seek to remedy that consequential deficit and imposed requirement for working in the medical field. Concluding similarly, the 24 states to date who realized this to be a necessary educational component--all of which have or are in the process of returning cursive writing to their curricula.