When a people can no longer read cursive, then the writings, and personal letters and diaries of our founding fathers will be no longer be read, and libs will have successfully rewritten our history to their liking.
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Hilarious. Because, as we all know, none of those documents you mention are printed in anything but cursive.
I have the Constitution of the United States of America on my desk. Appears to be printed in something akin to Times New Roman at about 10 point type. No cursive reading necessary.
How many of us on this site (where we would expect the numbers to be considerably higher than, say, over at DU) have read the writings of our founders in their original handwritten form? What percentage would you say?
Agreed, but how about the rest of historical text, including family history. Within two generations, it will look like heiroglyphics to them.
I’m a historian. Primary document research involves reading cursive.
That’s just one reason to teach people to write and read cursive.