invite him here. >> he'll jog over and help himself. this is "the boston globe." fighting to save cursive from the common core. we talk about these in the presidential race but here's one thing about them. they do not include any requirements for handwriting instructions. education experts questioning whether students need to be taught two entirely different styles of handwriting. now a movement to install cursive writing is some kind of requirement. i remember learning cursive. i don't know how you would describe my actual handwriting now. it's an indecipherable scrawl. but do we need to teach kids this anymore? >> actually we don't, but i hate to see it go. i must say most adults are like you, have indecipherable handwriting. we don't write long letters to each other. >> we write with our thumbs now. >> penmanship class -- >> i always got bad grades there. >> i share eleanor's view since