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> The US foundational documents (Declaration, Constitution) are written in cursive/script. Public education certainly has something to do with creating citizens
by ncallaway 4y ago
> The US foundational documents (Declaration, Constitution) are written in cursive/script. Public education certainly has something to do with creating citizens capable of participating in US democracy and reading these docs is one significant part of that
I’ve read most of the constitution on each 4th of July for a decade now. I’ve never read the cursive version.
You don’t need to learn to read cursive in order to learn the history, importance, or context of our founding documents. I promise that the script is NOT the most important thing about those documents, and someone who was unable to read cursive is still fully able to participate fully in our democracy.
- bobthepanda 4y agoAlso, in the same way that old English is now strictly the domain of its academia, do we need to teach cursive to all?
- tdeck 4y agoEven at the time the vast majority of people reading these documents would have read them in print, because they were... printed for public distribution.