I was floored the first time I met someone that couldn't read cursive.
Many schools are not teaching it anymore.
Just one more reason to home school.
They don't want people reading the Constitution.
One of the exact reasons why I started homeschooling my son years ago. He was initially in a private school that taught cursive. There was an unexpected turn of events that caused us to enroll him in public school (it was his first and last year in the system). He was in 4th grade at the time when he made the brief transition to public school.
After his first month of public school, his teacher actually pulled my husband and I aside to advise us that our son needed to stop submitting class work in cursive, but not before she gave him multiple failing grades on classwork; This was not because the work he submitted was incorrect, but ultimately it was because they didn't teach cursive, and none of the other students could read it, therefore he could not participate when the class did self-grading on their homework. If that wasn't enough, they were also pushing common core math, which royally confused him coming from a school that taught him more correct methods.
I took him out of the school system a week later. I've been homeschooling him ever since, and he's been much better off for it. Even if you work full time, where there is a will there is a way. It does make time feel a bit stretched, but it is so worth it.
I was in an experimental math program that my district did back in the 90s.
It was basically the alpha trial run of common core, so it was worse than common core. The powers that be were planning that garbage for a long time. It put me two years behind.
Now as a grown adult it still trips me up when trying to do fractions.
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