[BfloGuy]

They will not be able to read many of the original documents like the Constitution and items like John Adam’s letters to his wife, etc. without cursive.

No, they won't. You are right.

It reminds me of how the Progressives, at the beginning of the 20th century, gradually convinced everyone that Latin and ancient Greek were "dead" languages and had no place in a modern, democratic curriculum.

That accomplished, no longer would Americans be able to read, in the original, the long 2,500 year history of those ancient civilizations that led to European civilization, the Enlightenment, and, eventually, the United States. Our ties to the past were lost.

Quite by design.

[TurboZamboni]

These were probably same progressives that told me I’d never be able to get by in America without learning the metric system.