This summer I took a class at the local college and still used cursive for note taking sometimes. Other than that I rarely use it except to sign my name. I think if it were omitted from the school curriculum we would be okay without it.

I agree with teaching keyboarding skills earlier than we did in the past. I first took keyboarding in 9th grade (graduated 1996) and it wasn't actually a requirement for graduation, just recommended. I see a lot of job ads that include the requirement to type 40 wpm, and I think this is a reasonable requirement for many positions. On my last deployment we had a license examiner (lots of typing involved in that position) who typed about 2-3 (seriously) wpm. He didn't make a lot of progress and eventually ended up getting fired. BTW, I was up to 36 in one semester of keyboarding and am considerably faster now.

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