[discostu]

Extremely.

[TigerClaws]

Saw this comment and response on FR yesterday:

“In the Rockford,Illinois public school system, teaching cursive is PROHIBITED. One teacher who was trying to do it on the sly got in trouble for it, and he had to stop.”

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I see it as a way cut off future generations from learning
from past generations. All the letters and all the writings of our forefathers were written in cursive. Future generations will have to rely on ‘experts’ to transcribe the texts for them with, perhaps, the occasional change here and there to make things more ‘understandable.’

Our great, great grandchildren will stare as stupidly at the Constitution as illiterate peasants from the Dark Ages stared at Latin Bibles.

[Secret Agent Man]

No but a punk thug violent attacker is.

[1rudeboy]

Short answer? Yes. If we’re lucky, kids will think of it as just another font.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I am going to start emailing scanned copies of cursive letters, secure in the knowledge that nobody at NSA will be able to read them.

[I want the USA back]

Eliminate it. It’s an excuse for some people to make unintelligible marks on paper.

[Paladin2]

Only for LIVs.

[willywill]

I have to admit, I had to look up what cursive meant. we don’t use that word a lot, do we?

I wonder how in the heck she knew the word.

[skeeter]

Thanks to Ms Jeantel we will now debate and resolve this critical issue.

Never mind all that other silly stuff, like the IRS helping rig elections or the president ruling the country by fiat.

[SoFloFreeper]

So THIS is what CBS considers newsworthy out of that episode?

How about the ignorance and illiteracy in the (ahem) URBAN population??

[bigheadfred]

the reason i got a computer back on 04 was because the high school stopped accepting handwritten homework and ferrying kids to the local library to use theirs was a pain in the

[Spruce]

My mother, a South Dakota farm girl, has the most exquisitely beautiful handwriting.

I used to be quite proud of my penmanship, but after using a computer for so long it has atrophied and now I write like a caveman.

[MissEdie]

Not really, in some schools that specialize in teaching kids with learning disabilities they teach cursive writing as opposed to manuscript. The reason is the way the letters are written in cursive helps prevent letter reversals that often cause a lot of reading and writing problems.

[nomad]

They can shove that! It still needs to be taught, I hope a solar flare wipes out the Tech world, I for one could survive, yes, even without the internet but It`d be worth it to see “generation text” commit suicide because their “jonesing” for a “cyber hit”.

[al baby]

Sad i find great joy in reading old letters and stuff from my late mom for me the writing looks alive ans song like

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When asked if she could read a letter in court, witness Rachel Jeantel, her head bowed, murmured with embarrassment, "I don't read cursive," according to court testimony.

The elephant in the room that CBS ignored is that, if the witness can't read it, she must not have written it.

Matter of fact, by making the issue cursive handwriting, they get to bury the fact that Benjamin Crump wrote that letter for her.

[FredZarguna]

This non-debate is typical of the kind of crap we have to put up with when commentators refuse to cut to the chase: If handwriting is legible, ANY person of modest capacity who can read is able to read it (yes, as somebody else said, "it's just another font.")

The bottom line is that a dim-witted perjurer could NOT READ AT ALL. Look at her testimony on the previous day when she is handed typewritten exhibit after exhibit and clearly has NO idea what they say. "I can't read cursive" is baloney. She can't read, and the defense clearly knew this when they asked her to read the letter she'd supposedly written.

[Cyman]

I was truly shocked she knew what the word cursive meant. Sort of like using the term niggardly.

[austinaero]

If our culture is depending on the US Education system to teach it then yes,,yes it is

[CaptainK]

So signing a contract in the future will be done in print letters?