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Message:: [QUOTE="Tall Paul, post: 25317588, member: 114635"]Actually it has. Cursive was removed by the Federal government from K-12 common core in 2010, but it was fading long before that. As a historian I am saddened by the idea that cursive is no longer taught. How can one expect students learn to read primary sources and documents? We need look no further than the original poster's thoughts that something written in cursive was a foreign language and he needed a translation. It's not his fault but the fault of the system in which he was educated. It is so sad to see a population of young people who are ignorant of a writing system that has existed for centuries, sadly not one of them would be able to read any document written in cursive, for example the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Of course transcriptions exist for all of the aforementioned but that is not the point. Being able to read primary source documents broadens one's understanding of history. It's a shame that the Federal Government considers cursive to be irrelevant.[/QUOTE]