When was the last time you wrote in cursive? Fifty-eight years ago The Saturday Evening Post was already calling America a "nation of scrawlers."
Now, the recently established Common Core State Standards, the standardized education benchmarks for U.S. public schools, omits cursive as a graduation requirement. Indiana and Hawaii waved goodbye to cursive in 2011 and welcomed keyboarding classes to their curricula
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Over time in generations to come when children have lost the art of reading cursive the U.S. Constitution as well as the Bill of Rights will be hieroglyphics to its onlookers. What better way to indoctrinate a society then to make them ignorant to its writings.
11:09-While reading your comment I think about Thomas Jeffersons' handwriting.Absolutely perfect cursive.
No big loss. When people were learning how to write in cursive, they were also NOT learning how to type, let alone navigate a computer or the internet. I would argue that learning to type or use a computer, which I would argue require more brain stimulation than learning cursive.
Nobody really misses buggy whips, and no one will miss cursive.
How about when the power goes out eons from now. How will they communicate except by voice?
With drums and smoke signals 12:25.
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