The Unlikely Return of PENMANSHIP
Bill Whittle Network
Bill Whittle Network
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We the people, in order to form a more perfect you, yay, verily, a more curvaceous W, do ordain and establish |
| 0:11.3 | after-school activities called cursive clubs. I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, |
| 0:18.4 | and this episode of Right Angles is brought to you by the members at billwittle.com, and men, it is happening. Remember a few years back when the Common Core |
| 0:26.3 | Curricular guidance came out from the federal government, and then a lot of schools and states |
| 0:31.2 | change what they were doing, and one of the casualties of Common Core, although Common Core didn't |
| 0:36.6 | really mandate what you had to do with your curriculum. |
| 0:40.3 | One of the casualties, Steve, was cursive. |
| 0:43.3 | And a lot of schools just stopped teaching how to do that kind of flowy, swoopy-dupy handwriting |
| 0:51.3 | that I was never very good at, but that we used back in the day, |
| 0:56.9 | you know, to sign a check or to sign your, you know, name on anything. Or Steve, in the anniversary |
| 1:06.0 | year of these United States of America, when we are going to be reconsidering the founding documents |
| 1:13.6 | like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, wouldn't it be great if some kids could |
| 1:19.5 | actually read that handwriting? Well, there are clubs being formed around the country that meet after school to get together and the kids |
| 1:31.3 | want to learn how to write cursive. |
| 1:35.3 | I mean, just, these are not kids who are saying, hey, I want to hang around and play video games, |
| 1:41.3 | or I can't wait to get out of this school building, they're like, |
| 1:44.6 | could we stay after school and do something that used to be mandated during regular school hours? |
| 1:51.2 | Man, what weird kind of loser kids are those? |
| 1:55.6 | No, I'm teasing. |
| 1:56.7 | I think it's great. |
| 1:57.8 | Not necessarily because it's cursive, although I do miss cursive. |
| 2:01.9 | I was never any good at it either. I'm a lefty, so I've got that stupid scrawl thing that so many lefties have, |
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