re: #299 danarchy

Same.

My friends who have school age kids have told me they have stopped teaching it here. The only downside is I think it will make it harder for aspiring historians to go back and study original source documents.

And those documents are challenging enough when you know cursive. I still have one document from my dissertation research that I could never read. It was on microfilm so I have a printed copy, but no magnifying glass could help make sense of it. It was unfortunate. I could read enough of the title and opening paragraph to know that it probably contained something use full, but I never could decipher the person’s handwriting to get all the info.