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Digital illuminati are clamoring for something new and exciting, and our children are the Guinea pigs.

We were virtually forced to buy and use computers and HDTV’s in order to simply exist in the “new millennium.”

 

“Paperless,” was the word du jour, implying that the world would never have to cut down another tree, and pen and pencil manufacturers would quickly go the way of the buggy whip.

 
But now we hear that with the new school curriculum, Common Core, there will be absolutely no teaching of cursive writing.
 
Cursive writing is what you do when you sign your name on forms and documents such as your driver’s license and other legal papers.
 

It seems as though the Common Core folks are a bit over-confident in thinking the world will be paperless in the next few minutes, thus having no need for people physically signing documents.

 

According to the powers-that-be, kids will be using computers to digitally send, read, babysit, order things, and sign legal documents.  In that case, there will be no need for paper or writing implements, folders, paper clips, staples, or reading lamps.

 

Commercial computers have been around for over twenty-five years, with mainframe machines in use since the 1950’s.  Great ideas and hopes are not necessarily the ingredients in science, so hoping for results is just that.

 

Of course there are some of us who have less-than-desirable penmanship, but that is the beauty of signing documents, individualizing each signature, ensuring each is unique and easily identifiable.

 

Now, however, the ‘globalists’ who want us all – world wide - to live as one, feel this is the next step to de-individualizing people as Americans, French, Germans, Japanese, etc.

 

This all sounds so good emanating from goofy think tanks in ivory towers everywhere.  But, what if the digital design plan fails?  Will kids turning 20-years old sign their names with an “X?”
 

Learning cursive writing is not the monumental task the illuminati’s make it out to be.  It is a right of passage akin to singers “making a song their own” by howling where howling notes do not appear in the musical manuscript. 

 

The letters of the alphabet turn into your own and you can become as creative as you like, making giant swirls or abrupt jags, placing dashes where none belong, and dotting letters that need no dots.

 

Too many kids – and adults – cannot print, much less write cursive.  I’ve seen a list of needed materials composed by a co-worker.  It had to be sent to the NSA for de-coding because it was so difficult to read.  This fellow was 40-years old, too.  I felt embarrassment for both him and his elementary school teachers.

 

His signature was incoherent but, it was a signature, nonetheless.  In fact, it was more than an “X.”  That’s because he had a modicum of a background in writing script.

 

Common Core pimps and parents who simply roll-over at the snap of school administrators’ fingers, deserve the blame for this debacle.  And, it’s still not too late to correct it.