Saw this comment and response on FR yesterday:
“In the Rockford,Illinois public school system, teaching cursive is PROHIBITED. One teacher who was trying to do it on the sly got in trouble for it, and he had to stop.”
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I see it as a way cut off future generations from learning
from past generations. All the letters and all the writings of our forefathers were written in cursive. Future generations will have to rely on ‘experts’ to transcribe the texts for them with, perhaps, the occasional change here and there to make things more ‘understandable.’
Our great, great grandchildren will stare as stupidly at the Constitution as illiterate peasants from the Dark Ages stared at Latin Bibles.
Don’t worry, the far left academics will tell them what it really says. /s
Sad. My mom had the most beautiful cursive writing I can remember having to lick all the envelopes for Christmas cards she sent out they were thoughtfully written and addressed and pretty.
To me cursive is the same letters just fancier I think the younger ones and the star witness just can not read our signatures are a form of cursive writing.
...as were court records and land conveyances.
Bibles were written in the language of the time which educated people could understand. Since the materials were prohibitively expensive and tomes were handwritten, it made sense to use a language common to all of Europe. Until 50 years ago, a man could not be counted truly educated unless he had some Latin. The rest of the folks were taught Bible stories via audio visual aids, preaching and stained glass and tableaux.
The left wants to let cursive die, yet they support spending over $100,000 per year to support an on staff calligraphist at Obama’s White House.
That is one ugly word picture you paint there, TC. Another one for the "Sad But True" file, I guess.
[[One teacher who was trying to do it on the sly got in trouble for it, and he had to stop.”]]
What the hell was the teacher charged with? Illegally tryign to improve her student’s comunication skills?
You know, I wouldn’t put it past these rabid liberal oppressors. The are as evil as the day is long during the summer solstice.
The whole purpose of cursive writing is speed of execution. It is much easier to flow from one letter to another than in block letter writing. But as you say, our rich and profound history is bound in cursive writing.
My son is disgraphic. He can’t spell when he prints, but he can when he writes in cursive. Strange that a school would punish teachers for teachin it.
“I see it as a way cut off future generations from learning
from past generations. All the letters and all the writings of our forefathers were written in cursive.”
Interesting theory. This sparked my interested in going and rereading parts of the Constitution by way of a scanned image to pay closer attention to the look of the writing. I never released there were corrections on the document — I’d always read it as a reprint.
When my kids were going through Fairfax County (VA) public schools, diagramming sentences was prohibited. My daughter’s teacher had to extract a promise from her students not to tell anyone, as she closed the door to teach them anyway.
We should not wonder why younger people today are lacking in certain skills, in literacy, in use of proper grammar, etc.
We are ALREADY illiterate in comparison to the Founders.
Even if you translated their writings into block text, the vast majority of Americans would struggle to understand a single page.