[RightField]

I never hear much discussion about the necessity of cursive to read old documents. I often pore through old probate files and land records while my family's history. All those old documents are hand written, in cursive.

And, of course, America's founding documents are written in cursive. If you can't read them, so much the better to liberal educators. If students can't read the constitution as it was originally written, or the Declaration of Independence as it was originally written, they have no other choice than to read the block print version presented to them.

Student thus may never discover that the phrase is "unalienable rights" not "inalienable rights" in the Declaration of Independence, and what, if anything, is different between the prefixes "un" and "in" anyway. Maybe some students would be curious.

A student thus deprived of being able to read cursive is not able to research and learn from any original documents written in cursive. I think that's a shame.

I liken it to people who can't read an analog clock. When all they can read is digital, they don't see the passage of time as the hands move, they don't see the relationship of quarters circles to whole circles and movement of time, etc.

There is so much more to learning and reasoning than just being able to decipher block letter or digital printing.

[JLLH]

So well written — and thank you!!! Education is NEVER a waste. Knowledge is power. It’s disturbing (to say the least) when conservatives are making the libs’ arguments for them! (Maybe these are the same people who think “spell check” takes care of everything??)