This debate was prompted by a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald bemoaning the fact that younger people were unable to write in cursive.
I responded with a letter that many under 30s were also unable to read it.
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Sadly Alan is quite right. Generally today's young can't read cursive handwriting.
Our Year 7s(13 year olds) visited our School Archives earlier this year. I asked them to imagine looking at a box of 'treasures' (cards, photos and letters) out of their grandmother's cupboard and then comparision that to their own future grandchildren looking at a box of their 'treasures' (USBs, DVDs and Ipads) in 50 years time. Their first comment was 'We can see granny's pictures but we can't read the writing"! Of course we then talked about how 13 year olds in 50 years time will struggle to even see the photos but reading handwriting is already seen as too hard by today's 13 year olds. I guess it is just a sign of the times.