I’m a 70’s gen-xer but this one really made me feel old! Why would they do that?!

So yesterday, I’m at the doctor’s office filling out the paperwork that they ask you to do and there are several sections where you can add notes or explain. My printing is chicken scratch but my cursive is good so that’s mostly what I use. Most of my forms have been online for the last 10 years. I finish filling it out, bring it up to the counter, take my seat, and wait to be called. The lovely young girl at the counter calls for me so I go back up to the counter and she proceeds to ask me what language I have written on my forms and that she can’t read it. I tell her it’s English in cursive and she says “Oohkaaay, I never learned that kind of English but I’ve heard of it, I think they stopped teaching it in the early 2000s so you’ll have to redo the paperwork.” I politely declined saying ‘I’m sorry to hear that you never learned it, but no thank you, I won’t be redoing the paperwork, hopefully the doctor will be able to read it or I’m going to have to start my search all over again.” It was good to learn that my new doctor does read cursive and she’s actually older than me.

I googled it, and I was yesterday years old when I found out that they actually stopped teaching cursive in schools in 2010! 🤯 Why would they do that?