They Killed Cursive So You’d Need a Translator to Read Your Own History
Two generations now. That’s what we’ve manufactured.
You Can Thank Progressive Ideologue Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers
In 2010, cursive was quietly stripped from Common Core. No debate. No vote. Just gone — replaced by keyboarding and test prep. Fast forward to today, and the results are exactly what any thinking person would have predicted.
Drew Gilpin Faust — former Harvard president, not exactly a conspiracy theorist — walked into her Civil War seminar and discovered two-thirds of her Harvard undergraduates couldn’t read cursive. Two-thirds. At Harvard. One student admitted he’d reshaped his entire senior thesis to avoid sources with handwriting. Another abandoned Virginia Woolf because she couldn’t read Woolf’s letters.
Let that sink in. The elite are being graduated illiterate in their own language’s written form.
What’s actually been accomplished here?
– The Declaration of Independence is now a foreign document to most Americans under 30. They can’t read it. They depend on someone else’s transcription — someone else’s framing.
– Grandma’s letters from the war. Mom has to translate the birthday card. The direct, unmediated connection to your own bloodline? Severed.
– Original manuscripts, land deeds, family Bibles, journals, contracts. All of it now requires a credentialed interpreter — a new priesthood of specialists who tell you what your history says.
Faust herself spelled out the implication with brutal clarity: “Just imagine if you had some contract that you had signed and you couldn’t read it and someone told you, well, this is what’s in the contract. And then later you might find that it was something else.”
That’s not a bug. That’s the feature.
When a population can’t independently access primary sources, history becomes whatever the gatekeepers decide it is. The past isn’t discovered — it’s assigned. And a person who needs permission to read their own inheritance is a person who’s been quietly, thoroughly disempowered.
The technocrats will tell you it was just pragmatic modernization. Nothing to see here. Just optimizing the curriculum for the 21st-century economy.
Funny how the “optimizations” always seem to produce citizens more dependent, more disconnected, and easier to manage.
Teach your kids cursive. Buy the workbook. Spend twenty minutes a day. Not because it’s charming or vintage — but because a people who can’t read their own founding documents in the original hand are no longer a free people. They’re tenants in their own civilization, renting access to a past that was stolen from them one curriculum meeting at a time.
– Tony Seruga
Notes to Readers:
You can add the removal of cursive from schools to a growing list of intentional failures in the American “education” system. Few children who “graduate” today are fully literate… meaning they can’t read books, understand legal language, perform basic math functions (and we’re talking BASIC, like making change, counting money, budgeting, telling time… stuff we learned in grade school). This is fully intentional. Create a young population brought up on junk food, drugged up on toxic substances, vaccinated (up to 72 doses before age 18), doing facetime with a glowing rectangle of a communication device instead of friends… We have a disengaged, dumbed-down population that will create chaos in the streets, give vacant stares at anyone who actually uses critical thinking… and creates generational divides as great as the Grand Canyon. This is communism at work. Call it “liberalism”, “progressivism”, “socialism”… it’s all the Marxist doctrine that has succeeded in wounding America internally. It is all being purged from the systems, all of the systems. It’s generations of social engineering that has been especially detrimental to the generation born after year 2000 CE. There’s going to be a lot of re-training for everyone after this “war” is over…
Education is going to become decentralized. It will be free to everyone. It is a process getting there, so be patient. Meanwhile, strive to educate yourself by reading actual physical books. Tiro and others have mentioned that schools are going to be closed for at least two years as the new decentralized education system becomes fully operational. So, y’all who have kids or grandkids, be prepared to home school your little darlings. Right now, they would be better off anyway.
Eliza Ayres, Sunny’s Journal
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