If you were ever told or were made to learn cursive writing when you were in grade school.
I wanna see how many of you suffered like I did.The worst part is everyone now insists I write in print because they can’t understand cursive.
I FEEL THIS I WRITE QUICKER IN CURSIVE BUT NO ONE CAN READ IT
They make you learn cursive solely so you can sign your name later in life. At least, that’s always been my assumption, because I’ve never used it for anything else and I’ve never seen it used for anything else. XD Lemme tall ya, learning to resign my name after 30+ years in cursive was fun; thankfully, I at least knew how to write all the letters but there was this weir transition period where my last name looked really nice and my first name was just this random scribbled blotch. Now they’re both terrible, as a signature should be. 😀
Second grade was when we were taught cursive. Before the advent of widely-available home computers, you were expected to turn in your written assignments in cursive as well.
Funnily enough, I believe cursive was meant to be a formal way of writing more quickly than in print, but now that almost every written presentation/assignment is expected to be typed, cursive is pretty much a relic of a bygone era.
We did cursive in Grade 1 – I don’t recall being taught to print as such, but we seem to have come out of kindergarten knowing how. Initially cursive involved doing a lot of loops and things, which we used to do rhythmically while singing – I suppose it was meant to help us make the loops more regular in size.
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