DEAR HELOISE: I read with great interest the letter from Sharon, in Middletown, Ohio. I, too, mourn the loss of cursive writing and know many young people who are able to text on their phones with impressive speed but are unable to write their own names. Printing their signatures like first graders do is all they can manage.

Here is another very sad example of this: My nephew teaches anatomy in a small medical teaching facility. The clocks on the classroom walls throughout the facility were changed to digital clocks. The reason? Because of students’ complaints that analog clocks were too difficult for them to read to figure out the time! Mind you, these young people are there to eventually become nurses or doctors. How sad is this?

— Alice, in Virginia

Alice, I imagine parents will have

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