By Times of Trenton Editorial Board
on August 17, 2016 at 6:08 AM, updated August 17, 2016 at 10:18 AM
If the words on this page were written in cursive, chances are few people under the age of 18 could read them.
That’s not a lament – just an observation. The dependency on computers, email and texting for communicating has rendered what we used to call “script” all but obsolete.
In the not-too-distant past – say, 2004 or so – New Jersey’s third graders were required to “write legibly in manuscript or cursive to meet district standards.”
That requirement has gone the way of the floppy disc, photographic film and cassette tapes.
But now two state lawmakers are pushing a bill that would force every school district to teach reading and writing in cursive as part of the elementary school curriculum.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/08/theres_no_place_for_fancy_writing_in_todays_digita.html
so we are raising kids who will be functionally illiterate in certain situations.
nice!
Writing checks, sympathy and thank-you notes, and love letters has disappeared forever, has it?
8:22
I’m afraid to say that for 99% of the population yes, it has…