re: Do you still use cursive writing?

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There are younger people today that cannot read it. To them, their written history, should they choose to confront it, in the form of old letters, diaries, bank records, land descriptions and much else might just as well be written in symbols from four millennia ago in the Fertile Crescent.

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A couple of years back, an old friend from college came by my office to go to lunch. He brought his young teenage son who was out of school for the summer. They came up to my office and the kid was wandering around looking at pictures and stuff behind my desk as we were preparing to leave. I had to write out a check (talk about old school) to pay rent to the landlord since we would be driving by his office and I was going to drop it off. As I was writing the check out, one of the times I always use cursive, the kid watched and exclaims "WHOA! That's like the Constitution and shite. So cool!" I was confused until his dad explained that they don't teach it anymore. I had no idea.