“Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 6 Apr 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
The U.S. Constitution and other historical documents have been archived, reprinted and digitized many times to make them widely accessible and readable.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 6 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 April 2021, 13 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
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