is cursive still a thing? Is it still taught in school? Sometimes I hear that places have stopped doing this. I guess I just wonder if it’s going to go away as far as everyday use. Yes I am 100…
1986, and we used it all through elementary school. We did penmanship exercises pretty frequently and all our essays had to be done in cursive.
1986. My teacher taught it in third grade. I had to write my essays in cursive in the fifth grade and got top marks for it. The only time I’ve had to write in cursive for school since is to sign exams. But I use a combination of cursive and print for everything these days.
1994. I went to a private elementary school for first grade, where I remember the teachers mentioning they taught cursive to the second-graders. After that year, my parents decided homeschooling would be easier, so I never did learn proper cursive. My printing just runs together at the edges.
(To answer a question I remember someone asking: Every time I’ve needed to write something more formal than legible, it’s been in either Japanese or Chinese.)
(Source: saschaeatsteeth)
