You can do lots of rebelling without ever putting pen to paper. Cursive is antiquated and useless, it’s a different letter set that looks nothing like what you’ll see in books or on computers. There’s no reason to teach kids 2 versions of all the letters, there really never was.
It is a part of Understanding English. There are thousands of documents, letters, and papers that are handwritten that contain a wealth of art, beauty, and history that can be read in the original and enjoyed. I have an unpublished letter from a Civil War Soldier (Complete with the envelope and stamp) that is written in a lovely hand. The soldier was writing to a friend of his in New Hampshire, and was involved in the Peninsula Campaign. He spoke of Gen McClellan and expected the War to be over by Christmas. Since no copies of this letter exist on the internet or in any history books, it can only be read in the original. I truly believe that if an entire category of knowledge is removed from availability, it is the same as censorship and thought control, like in the “Ministry of Truth”.
Just as when I taught myself Russian years ago, I learned both the print alphabet and the cursive. No big deal.
Now I am attempting to teach myself Hebrew. Guess what? There are too versions of THAT Language too.
Funny, we don’t hear the Russians OR the Jews complaining about cursive! LOL.
Why is it that in the days before computers, kids were quite capable of learning both print and cursive, Long Division and mental arithmetic, figuring out square roots, naming all the capital cities of all the states, and remembering all the dates of important events in the founding of our nation? What will our modern generation do if suddenly there is no electricity to run their computers, video games, or electronic toys?
I LOVE my computer (taught myself html and computer graphics) and use it to create music...but I STILL know how to READ Music, and can write a song out by hand if the situation arises.
I don’t think any knowledge is “useless”.
So I respectfully disagree with you about that. But we can still be FRiends! LOL!
Cursive is antiquated and useless, it’s a different letter set that looks nothing like what you’ll see in books or on computers. There’s no reason to teach kids 2 versions of all the letters, there really never was.
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It is **PLAINLY** evident from these two sentences above that you were NOT properly taught how to either print or write in cursive.
If printing is **properly** taught the transition to cursive is seamless, absolutely effortless, and take no time whatsoever. Why? Because the formation of the letters in printing is **exactly** the same way cursive letters are made. There are **not** two sets of letters.
If you believe that there two versions of letters ( cursive and print) then I can understand why you would be completely frustrated with cursive. I am sorry your teachers mistreated you in this manner. Personally, I believe that the PTB ( the highest most powers that be) in education WANT citizens to be cut off from the wisdom of their past and this is exactly what will happen when they are unable to read the journals and letters of their ancestors.
On the contrary, it's an efficient way of writing because it doesn't require you to spend time constantly lifting the pen off the paper. And the letters don't look significantly different from printed letters—they basically just have tails added to join them together.