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I bet in the 60's and 70s slide rules. we can't have calculator come in classrooms. big difference between saying that some schools should teach cursive and mandating that every school has to. >> how would you respond to that? >> i would respond by saying i think all schools should be teaching cursive. is an important tool to be learned. whether or not people think that all the kids are going to be using technology and their computers that's great down the road. early age important skill to learn. fine motor skills. hand to the pen to the pencil to the paper your brain. these are skills that w...

He is research fellow american enterprise institute. founder of divalicious moms. i like that. both joining us for fair and balanced debate. do we need cursive anymore? >> i think we probably don't. but what we especially don't need is a law mandating that teach cursive. i have no problem if schools would like to teach their students cursive. but i think this is a case of some legislative micromanagement. what legislators should be doing is get out of of the way of teachers and principles to meet the needs of students. infrastructure not bourbonning them with regulation and programs that seem ...

Able to for a while. it helps offset some the cost of doing some of these things. >> thank you very much for the information. you are a font of knowledge this morning. >> thank you. have great day. >> you too. commuter bus goes up in flames. how the driver saves dozens of lives here. surrive writing -- cursive writing more extent in our schools or should doo we need a cursive compact? [ male announcer ] where do you turn for legal matters? at legalzoom, we've created a better place to handle your legal needs. maybe you have questions about incorporating a business you'd like to start. or quest...

Is. now, you can say, well, steve jobs learned calligraphy so we don't have to, but there are other things you can do once you've learned it, so i don't think it's ended. >> so, in an era, though, where kids are increasingly using technology and bringing with them any manner of mobile devices to help them do that, how do teachers go about teaching cursive? >> they can't go about it as their ancestors did in the 19th century. then cursive was really needed as a business handwriting because there weren't any typewriters yet. and students were really forced to learn it as a mechanical process, an...

Whether the students down the road encounter cursive in at declaration of independence or constitution they will not only know how to write it or decode it as well >> that's a good example. declaration of independence. current school you are looking at still teaching cursive. >> pitter and patter on the minds of one zoo. latest member and the proud momma. why the birth of the giraffe is special to a new generation of animal lovers. truth or dare. charlie sheen kicks off his 20 city tour. who he picked to sing the national anthem. she better sing it. ♪