Start-Up Business

     If I possessed business acumen, I would launch an education-related venture.  All that would be needed is a sense of entrepreneurship and a facility for instruction.  I would fill  what I consider  a glaring omission in our elementary schools and, by extension, in secondary education.  Students are unable to read cursive writing.  It has not been taught for several years, so there is an up and coming generation of kids who are totally unfamiliar with it.  I would think parents, perhaps even students themselves, would be interested in establishing a forum where cursive could be taught and learned before it dies out completely.  Handwritten historical documents, authors' first drafts of their writings, even old love letters found in an attic will be unable to be decoded.  Translators will be needed, just as for an unlearned foreign language.  After all, cursive is one of the original 3 r's, the basis for public schooling.  Just because it's not stressed in Common Core does not lessen its importance.  Shame on our public schools!
    I know this is true.  I wrote  a few sentences, in old fogey cursive, on a card for my grandson's 12th birthday.  He is in 6th grade, a top honors student, and was unable to read the card because he's had no exposure to cursive writing.  Holy smokes!