Again from a BBC report: Dr. Scott Hamilton, an Indiana clinical psychologist, said the time children spend laboring over script could be better used. "From an intuitive standpoint, this makes sense, based on the increasingly digital world into which this generation of children is growing up," he said.

Again from the Indianapolis Star: "I think it's progressive of our state to be ahead on this," Denna Renbarger, assistant superintendent for Lawrence Township (Indiana) schools, tells the Indianapolis Star. "There are a lot more important things than cursive writing."

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