“Perhaps the greatest example and most compelling reason to teach cursive writing to our students is the fact that it was the form used in so many of America’s Founding documents.”
Flimsy reasoning.
Those documents were mass-printed almost from day one, and they were not reproduced in cursive. Saying that if it isnt part of school, we wont be able to read them is silly. It’s like saying that the Bible not being in Hebrew means that we wont be able to read it. Or if we dont teach people to speak Renaissance English, we wont be able to read Shakespeare.
I know cursive very well, and I STILL can barley read Washington’s sometimes bad handwriting.
True, but there are massive amount of documents in archives and courthouse record rooms that were never reproduced, and were written in cursive. Think letters, wills, deeds, land grants, birth certificates, baptismal records, etc. Any serious genealogy investigation or historical research requires being able to read original documents.