I just found out that schools do NOT teach cursive writing anymore. Think in 50 years someone finds a document written in. Cursive. They won’t be able to read it.
Ahhh...... but you overlook the possible reality.
Someone will obtain a master’s degree in Cursive History and Technique and will extract a fee for translation
Most cursive writing is completely illegible anyway. If someoe can make out the letters they can read it. Learning to write in cursive is a vanity project. Most writing is done electronically these days and if one has to take pen to paper for someone, most recipients prefer printing
It’s a lot faster to write in cursive. I could believe they could write their exams on a computer, but too many of them can’t type either.
You’re right. They don’t teach cursive. They don’t teach the multiplication table either. Believe it or not, many can’t tell the time on an analog clock face.
Fortunately, their cell phone gives them a digital display of the time and the cash registers at McDonalds tell them how much change to give.
My youngest son was taught to write in cursive (7 yrs ago) before he was taught to print. The principal said “think about it, how does a young kid draw? In blocky scribbles or cursive looking scribbles?”
He had beautiful handwriting then. Not so much now.
Then teach them at home.
We had an exchange student from Argentina. They learn cursive first, because the pencil never leaves the paper. Then when they get to high school they learn manuscript printing.
Exactly Right! Remember during the trial of Zimmerman (?), when the black female witness couldn't read a document because it was in “cursive?”
You're exactly right about cursive documents becoming as unreadable to our coming generations as Chinese is to us.
But Chinese brings us to another matter. The man who is responsible for China going from its old written language to a modified Latin Alphabet recently passed away, aged 100+.
The reason China wants to go to a Latin Style alphabet is to make reading the old traditional Chinese literature and philosophy impossible for coming generations. Thus millenia of Chinese culture will vanish into obscurity, and only the “new” Chinese literature will be read.
Funny what the consequences will be when we are no longer able to read cursive writing.
Like the Constitution.
My Daughter’s school will be teaching her cursive in 2nd grade. That was a subject of my conference with her teacher and principal.