"Can Young People Read a Clock?" (oh, my...)

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64. Of course some aren't.

That’s almost certainly less to do with cursive or clocks and more to do with staring mindlessly at phones all day instead of playing with toys or running around with other kids.

If it could be shown that one cohort of children taught cursive had superior neural development than a similar cohort of children who weren’t taught cursive then I would be convinced, all things being equal.

I learned cursive but never really mastered it, and simply didn’t use it. I don’t feel like my own development suffered beyond having crappy penmanship. I learned analog clock skills because digital clocks were unusual before everyone started getting VCRs and we discovered the magic of the perpetually flashing 12:00.

Your argument isn’t wrong, it just seems like a repeat of every generation complaining about the next and how doomed they are. Most kids seem like they’ll be fine, and the ones that won’t probably would have been just as screwed thirty years ago, or three hundred years ago.