And just when was the rewrite of the manuals? I know they talked about it in the 80's but decided against. At that time they were written at an 8th grade level and they were talking about reducing it to the 6th grade level. I've got a mine/countermine warfare TM floating around here somewhere from the early 50's and a radar manual for 1948. They don't read any different than the manuals we had in the early 90's before I retired. Besides, most folks never read those manuals anyway. Gotta remember that before WWII broke out many kids left school after the 8th grade. Many more could neither read or write. Yes a number of the men who enlisted or were drafted for WWII were illiterate right here in the good ole USA.
It's interesting watching the reactions to current course curriculum. Why spend the money teaching something that they are not going to use? Just because we had to learn it isn't a reason. It's more like revenge. When I hit 8th grade all that cursive writing went out the window in 1968. Papers and reports had to be typed, double spaced. When I joined the Army in 1974 all forms were filled out by PRINTING. When I retired in 96 all forms were filled out by PRINTING. When I earned enough rank to have to write reports they had to be typed. If they were taking a sworn statement it was taken to start by hand where it was PRINTED then typed. If I wrote up a soldier for misconduct or an award I had to print or type it.
Going back all my text books in school were printed starting in 1960. Every contract I've ever seen was printed. Every job application was printed. The only time I have ever used cursive writing was writing letters home while I was in the Army. Once I gained a little in rank I used this thing, it was called a phone, so I wrote few letters after that.
When was the last time any of you bought a tractor, implement, car or truck and the purchase agreement was in cursive? When was the last time you signed a loan contract that was in cursive or got insurance and the policy was in cursive?
So we got forced to learn a dead writing method even way back then. For what? All it really taught me was to resent being force to learn something foolish.
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