[servo1969]

#28

“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.

[OneWingedShark]

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.

They already do it with the law, even the Constitution, so that we need lawyers or Black-Robed God-Kings to translate it for us... and it doesn't matter if what it says is plainly not what the law sa—GET BACK TO WORK PEASANT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION YOUR BETTERS!