She’s a sad symbol, of ill educated young people, who can’t read cursive. I wonder how well she reads at all.
I’m torn on this. I went to private schools where everyone had to learn perfect penmanship in both printing and cursive. All reports had to be written in it. But as relevant as that skill was at the beginning of the computer revolution I have not had a single reason to write in it in at least 20 years. I’m not sure I could string together the alphabet now without a little practice.
And yes, even reading it is a bit of a challenge unless the writer forms the letters well. When was the last time any of you had to read cursive outside of historical or archived documents from the 80s and earlier? I still had to write in it into the 90s but outside of the classroom it was already long gone.
As wonderful as it was, it’s a dead script today unless we want to resurrect it for taking notes fast and having our phones and tablets convert it.