For those who study history, being able to read cursive writing is imperative. I truly believe that if it isn’t taught in the schools, it will make it very difficult for future generations to read what was written in script. The number of documents that we have stored electronically, but were originally written in script, is unbelievably large.
What better way to hide the past from those too ignorant to be able to read it?
It would be like reading a foreign language.
Very well said. Wish I'd put it that way in my post.
That is exactly what is happening. Texas has a project going to image all of the birth and death records. To make them usable, though, they have to be indexed. We are having trouble finding enough youngsters who can read cursive handwriting to interpret what is written on the forms and transcribe them onto a computer for the indexing.