2024 Regular Session - Day 59 - Comments on SB 167, Rep. Michael Meredith

you know probably six months ago I would have never seen myself speaking in favor of this bill speaking on this bill at all frankly um I'm not an expert on education I'll be the first to tell you that uh I'm learning a lot right now with a six-year-old in kindergarten however what I want to bring to your attention today is the importance of the life skill related to cursive handwriting um and and why I chose to stand up today and speak on on this legislation because in the last 6 months I was in my office at the bank and I was working with a young man in his 20s who was borrowing money for the first time to buy an automobile and I produced the loan documents for him and I handed them down to him and I asked the young man to sign the documents as we walked through the package of documents to get that loan and that young man says I don't know how to S my name I was never taught cursive writing in the entire time I was going through school and so I stand up today not because I'm an expert on education but cursive writing is the foundation for a real world skill that each and every student in Kentucky needs to have when they go out into the real world to borrow money to sign contracts and all those types of things and so I think it's a extremely important that we have this requirement just like I thought it was extremely important that we had this requirement to do financial literacy a few years ago when we did that in Miss body and so I would urge the members to support this bill uh and I because I think in in the real world this is an important skill thank you Mr Speaker