I find even the Declaration of Independence is difficult to read - and I, too, learned cursive in school. Heck, I've even written essays in cursive about the de

I find even the Declaration of Independence is difficult to read - and I, too, learned cursive in school. Heck, I've even written essays in cursive about the declaration and the constitution! The main thing with the Declaration and Constitution is that we know what they say - we've seen it in print, in books, and so on. When we go to read the cursive, we know what to expect. That aspect is lacking in other documents. For old documents, even the beautiful writing takes some time to decifer. I can only imagine the effort in piecing together the scribbles. I generally liken the lamentating folks to the folks that think that we should go back to teaching "Reading, writing, and 'rithmatic" in schools because back in the day, that's how it was done and (insert rosy thing about the past here).