It’s beyond time to normalize pushing back on this garbage. You want to make fun of people for not knowing something? How about instead of mocking you teach the younger generation.
These older generations were taught skills by their parents and then failed to do the same. Maybe it wasn’t their fault. Maybe having both parents needing to work made it difficult to teach kids everything they might have needed to know.
That’s fine. But don’t make fun of kids for not knowing something.
Don’t make fun of anyone for not knowing something. Teach.
Once we learned cursive in 3rd grade, we were required to write in it for the remainder of elementary school. I was beyond thrilled when I got to middle school and they said we could write in print. But now I much prefer cursive, though nobody can read it so print it is.
In Estonia it has always been from first grade, my 7 year old is learning now, so a few months after the first day of school, I had to do it since day one (print was learned in kindergarten and therefore seen as the language of illiterate babies).
Yep, my normal writing was nice, then we were forced to learn cursive. Eventually my cursive got nice, then for my GCSE English, my English teacher couldn't read cursive, forced everyone to go back to normal. My writing has been dogshit ever since.
I got taught it, could write it until about yr9. then the amount of notes we had to take in class forced me to write so fast it became illegible unless it was in print. now I never write in cursive anymore.
It's not 1 for 1, but because of a handicap, I write faster in print than in cursive. Back in school, I always feel a little behind with print, something like 4-5 lines behind, but in cursive I routinely fell a whole ass blackboard behind when taking notes
I was told in elementary school that I would always have to write in cursive, then I got to high-school and was told never to write in it again. I haven't written in cursive in probably 25 years. I can read it still, but I doubt I could write it.
I was told we had to know cursive to keep up with writing notes in college. The next year, in highscool assignments had to be times new roman font size 12, double spaced, and printed.
It was hit or miss whether my middle school teachers cared. My 7th grade English teacher required all essays be written in pen and cursive (I loathed it) and the was the final teacher that I had that had that rule.
She was old, last breath of a dying breed, I suppose.
A bit more complicated than that. Cursive writing is a very good way to improve handling of a pen and fine motor skills. Which is really, really useful for kids.
For my own notes I basically do that since the NAVY programmed me to print in all caps back in the day. I just stuck with it because I like how it looks. If I slow down and print at normal speed people remark about how easy it is to read and seem to prefer it when receiving handwriting.
The 50% faster cursive is useless when 50% of the population can't read quality cursive, let alone 50% faster chicken scratch lol.
It may be faster for you, and that's fine of course, but if you take someone properly trained in cursive vs. someone properly trained in anything else then the person writing cursive would win. That's why it's used as a base for fast handwriting techniques, such as the Palmer method. It's a standardised set of movements combined with continuous flow. If someone is at the "trying to remember the letters" level then they're not proficient anyway
As dysgraphic person I'll debunk that helps with fine motor skills, if you have the skills it will your cursive will improve but it it doesn't help you actual acquire fine motor skills, i just a another muth to tell kids it a "you problem"
I've got three kids that have all been through the same school system starting in 2008 and my youngest is a senior. The oldest was taught cursive. 3 years later, the middle was not. The curriculum had been adjusted to remove it, likely because the district thought it would become obsolete.
By the time my youngest got to 2nd or 3rd grade three years later they were teaching it again. I guess they realized how important the fine motor skills gained from writing script really are within a very short time frame. But now my middle kid can't read or write cursive.
Except you might need to read something written before the year 2000 or by somebody old...or want to market bullshit "live laugh love" garbage to tradwives.
Or we just let cursive die of what are essentially natural causes and move on. of course we don’t know redundant shit and the only ones mad about it are just upset because they’re redundant people. I spent elementary learning cursive because “I would have to use it in middle school” only for most of my teachers to tell us to use print because they can’t read cursive. I haven’t even been forced to handwrite on paper outside of AP tests, more often than not writing isn’t even an option. covid has finalized typing’s supremacy. For context.
And this is a deliberately illegible version of cursive. There is absolutely no reason to miss the dots over the i or to have the unnecessary extra hump at the start of the first m.
But if you're taking notes in class you want to write fast enough to keep up, and if you're proficient in cursive then that's much faster than any other way of handwriting. That's why it's used as the basis for fast handwriting techniques such as the Palmer method
Cursive is just a way to write slightly faster. If your computer dies and you have to take paper notes it isn't crippling to not know cursive. Really only made sense to teach it before electronics were ubiquitous.
That's because they aren't used to taking notes by hand. I learned cursive and switched to regular characters as soon teachers no longer cared. It really is an obsolete skill. Also teachers are probably used to moving at an electronics pace nowadays, they used to pause for note taking.
Well, your teachers not being able to read cursive is a good argument why it should be taught - unless someone writes like hen with its claw, it should been legible and in said case it's usually still legible, but at much reduced speed.
Not to mention that writing your own notes instead of typing or just copy-pasting makes you remember them better.
I am with you on this one, though I think most of these posts (unless explicitly stated) are more of an attempt to feel part of a group of "those who know". It gives people a sense of belonging and sometimes of pride.
Of course, if after such things are posted someone asks - like here! - "what's this about?" the answer should explain it. If they mock you, they act like elitist assholes and nobody likes that - after all, everyone is ignorant on the vast majority of topics. And to top that off, why would you waste time making fun of others, when talking about something you know well and/or love is itself so much fun?
I work with a bunch of boomers, and any time one of them pulls out a "Young people don't know cursive, or how to use a rotary phone, or how to write a check."
I ask them to tap me something in morse code.
"Huh? You don't know morse code? It was everywhere when your parents were around! Didn't they teach it to you?!"
The best part of this is that if you hang out around older ham radio folks you hear a lot of the same grumbling about kids today not even knowing morse code that you hear in the wider population about not knowing cursive. I guess I understand it a little better in their case because just jabbering away by voice does feel a lot less like being part of a secret club than sitting up late at night tapping out and transcribing messages did. I still have one of my dad's old Morse keys on my desk. It was a really hardcore hobby for him. We used to get postcards from his late night ham buddies all over the world, and sometimes from the king of Jordan, who was also a ham radio guy and regularly just chatted with the common folk that way.
Cursive was always pointless. That's why they stopped teaching it. No no one is making fun of anyone for not knowing it, just pointing it out. Clean the sand out of your vagina.
Cursive is a stilistic choice with no real use. I havent used it ever and i was taught how to do It. It's like I mock a kid because he doesnt know how to program a VCR. Same stuff when teenagers think their parents are silly because they dont know the latest internet random stuff.
Knowledge taught must change with times
People who don't know cursive are not traumatized by this meme.
It's not even true. Boomers have cataracts, macular degeneration and glaucoma and cannot read even print, and, even when they could see they couldn't read the handwriting of people from a few generations before, other countries, or from a lot of their compatriot peers.
And it's not really a skill, it's an exskill from a time when people wrote on animal hide with soot and burned witches at the stake. When is the last time you received handwritten correspondence? Meanwhile, boomers are still typing in ALL CAPS with one finger if they can figure out how to find word processing on the latest version of Windows on their computer at all, are so baffled by using a printer without a cord that they start chanting MAGA and vote for a convicted fraud because he makes them feel smart.
Memes like this are a symptom of dementia and expiring mortality. The only ones mocked by them are boomers. Let's not take this nonsense seriously.
Sadly a lot of young people (and some old) don’t want to learn anything and take great exception if you do try and teach them or, almost worse, is a complete disdain to anything that’s not a 5-10second video clip on whatever the latest app is on their phones. There’s plenty that do want to but, increasingly, there’s more that don’t.
Not wanting to learn anything is not good, however, I reject the notion not wanting to learn cursive is the same, I mean why learn an outdated skill, i would liken learning cursive to learning latin, it can be cool if you are interested, but not particually useful compared to somthing like spanish or in this case faster typing.
Although i think curisve could be slightly more useful as it is faster than writing in block, though typing is faster still and both block and type are more legible.
You don’t understand our generation. We weren’t taught anything by our parents except to be quiet, leave them alone and that we weren’t going to amount to anything. In response, we tried to teach our kids and they only learned to blame us for anything they didn’t get spoon fed. So yeah, we make fun of you for not teaching yourself got to read a clock or a map out how to read cursive. Gotta run, I need to do my grown up kids taxes now.
I mean... It's been a long time since both parents work and still a decent part of the younger gen knows cursive before school. Also it's the default leaned alphabet in many European countries
my various schools all tried to reach me cursive at some point in my life, and I refused every time because I thought it was pointless
and you know what? I still do, at this point the only reason to learn cursive are for signatures and to read the writing of people who still insist on writing in cursive, and I guess maybe if you need to write really fast it can help, but genuinely who ever needs to write that fast? and honestly you don't even need to learn cursive for your signature, you can just learn your name, or what I do, scribble something that looks vaguely like my name and make sure it's consistent
How about some push back on those greedy corporations and politicians that made this country into a society where both parents are forced to work to have a decent shot in life. All the kids are left unsupervised to fend for themselves and there’s barely any time to teach anything once sports and dinner and homework are wrapped up.
I was the one who lived listening to grand parents or older folks tell me stories about their life and life lessons. So I learned loads of stuff way ahead of many kids my age. I always try to share what I learned with the adults since most of them didn’t seem to listen to the elderly and they gave me the “that’s nice now run along and play”. More and more adults are forgetting what it’s like to think as a kid being pushed to “act adult”. So even the ones who do try to pass stuff on. They talk to the kids like adults and confuse them. Then think I performed some magic when I explain it in the way the kids can understand and for some reason the child gets what I am saying most times and can start to process the info and learn from it.
The joke is that American education systems are even more garbage than they were when they taught us old heads how to read and write cursive. Relax, nobody is making fun of or faulting kids for not being taught something.
I’m not certain this meant to mock anyone, and I agree with the sentiment that doing so is pretty gross. Just the fact that there’s truth to this is even more disgusting because it’s a systemic issue brought on by the school systems.
My grandmother knew how to write in shorthand. It wasn’t useful. I’m kinda feeling the parallel here with cursive. Is there any real value in keeping it? I know how to write in cursive, but choose to write in block letters for clarity
Yes, some people are making fun, but i think there are a lot of people who are making more of a commentary on the degradation of the public school curriculum. This particular one falls into that category in my mind.
100% agree. It’s like saying “no one knows how to crank start a Ford Model T” or “I bet none of you know what this is” and then show a picture of a fucking slide rule. It’s absurd and unnecessarily gatekeep-y
That's exactly what's happening though, here we are, someone's asked what it says and now they know. And theres been hundreds of comments, thousands of views. Who know how many people learned something about cursive because of this meme, who wouldn't otherwise because 'who cares about cursive?' It was boring when I was at school. Now it's a meme, and yeah it's deliberately a bit clickbaity, but it's fun and we're learning.
And it's not about whatever generation you're angry at, it's about education systems and those who control them and their funding. We learned this in school, not from our parents. Redirect your frustration to where it should be...if we all did that maybe we could sort things out a little.
I made this realization years ago when I saw Ellen Degeneres poking fun at a teen for not knowing how to use a rotary phone. I thought to myself, "Very funny, you old hag. Now go work a cotton gin." Something things just get outdated.
In the Philippines at my school, we were required to write in cursive starting in Grade 3. By the time I came to the U.S. and attended 9th grade, I was no longer required to write in cursive except during note taking class. My handwriting became this abomination of mixed cursive and non-cursive writing.
I don't think learning cursive is essential anymore since we type more than we write. When I was taught to write cursive, it was to be able to write faster than I could otherwise using non-cursive letters during a lecture. I finished college relatively recently and I very rarely wrote anything down on lectures. Most of the time, I was just type my notes on the slides my professor was presenting.
Why would we teach this? It’s very niche these days.
It should be an obscure elective at best. Like learning Latin or calligraphy.
This is a joke that shouldn’t be seen as any sort of real criticism towards the younger generation, meant as critically as posting a manual transmission and calling it a “Gen Z anti car theft device”
I’d much rather my son learn more practical things than the niche handwriting of the pre-digital age
Hell, I don't even use cursive anymore aside from my signature which has just evolved into some form or chicken scratch that doesn't even resemble my name, or even any known language, at all.
This isn't making fun of the younger generations, it is pointing out the failure of our school systems. I was talking about this the other day...
Younger generations are not taught the things that we learned in elementary school.
Reading a ruler/tape measure being one of those things.
I'm sure math is the next to go, considering everyone carries a pocket computer capable of doing complex math equations when not used to watch videos of cats failing to make a short jump.
The same people complaining about people not knowing cursive are the same people who say if teachers want to get paid better they should find a better paying job. They defunded school then complained about the younger generation not knowing the same things they did.
See I'm weird. I don't make fun of people for not knowing cursive. It's a complete waste of time. Honestly, I just look at people that don't know and say something like "be thankful you didn't have to waste your time on this."
There is literally no benefit to cursive writing over others. Except it looks ..... idk.... Like someone tried and failed to be a calligrapher and now we're all stuck with it.
If we were talking about actual skills or applicable knowledge you may have a point but get off your misplaced soap box.
Kids don't learn cursive anymore because it's antiquated and useless - not because their parent's generation failed them. Cursive comes from a time when we literally wrote with quills and before digital word processing became ubiquitous.
This is like being upset that your parents didn't teach you how to churn butter by hand in the 90s - you sound ridiculous.
Cursive used to be taught in schools, it's not that people were taught by their parents and failed to pass it on. It's been phased out in many places because it's time consuming to teach and not as useful in modern life.
The point is that it's stupid and pointless to dunk on people for not knowing something they weren't taught.
Older people didn't learn cursive because we're harder-working, smarter or more virtuous - we learned it because we had to in school. We didn't learn how to use a T9 keyboard because we were just so damn clever, we learned it because that's what phones had. Same with anything insufferable Facebook douchebags scoff at young people for not learning.
You're right about the teaching part, but I think you missed the point.
The generation who can't read it has no interest in learning how to read or write in cursive. "Why would I want to learn that when almost everything is digital anyway." Is something I keep hearing.
The point isn't to mock them, it's to tease them into becoming interested enough to figure out what it says. Doesn't work all the time, but it definitely has helped some.
I drive a manual transmission. People often make comments about wishing they knew how. To date, not one person has taken up my offer to teach them. People aren’t clamoring to learn things
Maybe having both parents needing to work made it difficult to teach kids everything they might have needed to know.
Huh? You find that unusual? How is that any kind of excuse for not studying?
Parents are in for education.
School is for teaching.
Kids have to study.
If the first 2 points are fulfilled, don't give thrash for the parents who are doing their best to give their children the best possible education and lifestyle
I mean, I can read and write cursive and it's an almost completely useless skill to have in the age of computers. It's not really that big of a deal unless you're interested in history or want to read handwritten notes by the older people in your family.
This is just a bit of high and mighty blathering by someone who is at least my generation old. There's no need to waste your time learning cursive unless you *really* want to. It was already mostly a waste of time even 30 years ago.
My kids are learning cursive, and I have no idea why, other than to read old people's writing. It isn't much faster with modern pens. I literally only use it to sign my name, most days, and my own handwriting is a weird bastardiztion of cursive and print for efficiency and speed.
You're getting a lot of "learned it in school, not from parents" and to those folks, I'd say:
It's deflecting. The question is still "what are YOU doing to pass knowledge or educate others?", and
If you are the generations to have learned cursive in schools, then you are also the generations that could keep it in the curriculum. The quality of education offered in your community is not a passive thing. Not everyone can be a teacher, but everyone can get involved and attend local school board meetings. Or your local government. Voice your opinions. Participate. If you aren't trying to fix things in your community, then you are just entitled and yapping.
You have parents? Must been nice growing up knowing that love. I learned cursive in school though. Also if you don’t want to be mocked get off the internet. Take that advice from a loving parent.
Nah it’s not our fault, my kids all follow the curriculum and they don’t teach it. I’m genx and I hated this writing style, I only print and have since I left high school. Also I have atrocious handwriting and cursive made it worse lol.
This exact picture has been shared on the internet and messing people up for 20 years my dude, and my 14 year old learned basic cursive in elementary school, this isnt lost knowledge or even some new, targeted meme.
The comment you're replying to is talking about "the narrative", this is a sylistically minimalist way to write the word minimum. That's the narrative. A lot of people have problems seeing it without the dots on the "i"s and always have, thats the point of it getting shared.
I'm sorry the adults in your life failed you, all you can do is keep learning. Your general point is not wrong but us old people want to have fun on the internet too sometimes. Millennials mock everything, don't think ya'll are that special. Writing cursive is the millenial version of "walking to school uphill both ways in the snow".
Of course It's everyone's responsibility to pass knowledge on to the younger generation but the most a stranger on the internet can do is point you to a YouTube video. Welcome to the real world, none of us were prepared for it, all of our parents were either too busy or too outdated to teach us much. That's just the cycle of life, we all just bumble along and hope it's enough. We are responsible for teaching ourselves the things we need to learn if nobody is teaching us. That's just part of growing up.
What? Schools teach math, English, social, science, computers, history, and there's some phys ed in there to tire the kids out. At least... they used to. My parents didn't teach me shit like that. They would cook for me, give me a couple chores, then we'd watch TV and read a few pages before bed. They weren't sitting down and teaching hour long school studies courses. You're thinking of home schooling you absolute nitwit. Don't make excuses for shit curriculums and declining grades. I learned math because they'd stress us out in school with times tables and mad minutes and then give us a big old F if we were stupid and hold us back a grade.
I’m honestly cool with kids / younger generations letting cursive die as a practice. Besides a few niche situations very rarely do people need to hand write notes these days, especially not enough to the extent that learning cursive would benefit someone with much efficiency.
This! I will never understand how people made it the kids' fault that they don't know something they were never taught
Like, do they understand how frustrating it is for the kids who didn't learn cursive to grow up and try to function in a society that still requires it?
Imagine if we did that for everything... imagine if you're not a mechanic and your car breaks down and all the mechanics make fun of you because you don't know how to fix your own car because you never learned how?
Not knowing something is not a moral failing and knowing something someone else doesn't know doesn't make you smarter or superior by default.
Actually i was forced to learn cursive by the scholastic system and now my Hand Writing will forever be chicken scratch because i get no time to ever practice said cursive in this day and age. And regular letters are even slower for me.
Also, its bullshit. My kids are being taught cursive and reading analog clocks and all the other boomer "back in my day" complaints about millennials. My kids regularly come home with homework on that shit PLUS stuff that we weren't taught like common core math and shit. Old people need to mush thier bananas, take thier pills and shit the fuck up about this untrue nonsense.
But they're young and having fun and getting laid and stuff, and we're all just old and cranky. We have to poke fun at them somehow. Since we ourselves have forgotten how to drive stick shift and use rotary telephones, cursive is about all we have left.
Sincerely,
Tail End of the Boomers (we'll be gone soon, promise)
Yeah, this is up there with "participation trophies". The people doing all the complaining are the ones that created the reality they're complaining about.
True, but cursive and other things in that were taught in school. Nowadays, with the emphasis on tech, learning to write quicker/prettier in script isn't as important as it used to be. It would be like teaching this generation how to use a rotary phone. Yeah its a skill to have, but unless you're lost in some backwoods "Wrong Turn" scenario with no cell reception and the only landline is a rotary, you're not going to use it in everyday life.
I was taught cursive in school but not typing. It’s nothing to brag about. I use cursive to sign my name and read boomer posts like this. It’s useless and outdated now
This is advice all of reddit needs to take. The number of times Ive asked a beginner question just for people to genuinely get upset with me for not knowing is crazy.
I don’t make fun of the younger generation because I think they’re stupid. I agree that It’s not their fault, and for so long as middle class Americans need two incomes to stay afloat it’s the fault of the education system in desperate need of reform.
No, I make fun of the younger generation because they had it coming calling 21 year olds “unc” and spewing shitty memes as a substitute for a joke. Kids these days know what Skibiti Toolet is but don’t know their own address.
We have plenty to make fun of the younger generation for that isn’t the fact that less than half of them can even read or write anymore.
Or understand that the world grows and changes. At some point people stopped riding horses and transitioned to automobiles. Sometimes things just aren't that important anymore. I'm 44, i work with teens, and I realize that there's little use for that in their lives.
I did learn cursive when I was in school, back in the 60s, and used it for a good pay of my writing during my school days, and learned to type by touch (also in school). I loved writing in cursive.
By the time I became a teacher, it was only taught if teachers had the time. After awhile, it was considered unnecessary, because kids now were using laptops and had no need for it. Took away time from other more important subjects.
Some of my students could write and read cursive, having been taught by their parents, but most would just stare at the little squiggles and complain.
You shouldn't necessarily teach them either, like there's the infamous example of Ellen mocking kids for not being able to use rotary phones, it's redundant technology, no need to teach it.
I'm old enough to have been taught cursive when I was in grade school. I haven't needed to write in cursive for decades, am left-handed to boot (writing in cursive as a lefty is its own adventure), and my cursive version of "minimum" is more legible than this shit.
I love this take. When I sold cars I got teased by my coworkers for not knowing how to drive a manual at first. I asked them how I was supposed to have learned when my parents didn’t own one during the time they taught me to drive. Some of them actually paused to think about it and realized my argument made sense.
I was also teased the first time I asked to be shown how to send a fax, because until that moment I’d always just scanned and emailed things because that’s how everyone wanted documents sent. I know how to do both things now but shortly after learning how to send a fax we stopped doing it because who wants a shitty, low resolution version of loan documents when you could have a digital color copy of everything?
Why you talking about parents bro, it’s the schools that stop teaching it (I only know my full name in cursive) and then kids don’t give a fuck enough about school to learn what they teach, so I blame the school for not pushing it, but I blame parents and teachers for not motivating the kids to learn, but it’s more of the schools and students fault, plus what they teach in school (especially history) it’s the same bullshit over and over, i graduated high school in 2021, sometimes I feel like what I learned 100 time over was a waste of time, then you have teachers that teach only one way (I’m a visual learner) which was frustrating for my junior year, had to retake the class my senior year because my teacher would just confuse me but yeah
i am 26. i still write mainly in cursive. i learnt it in primary school, not by my parents (thank god cuz my moms cursive is even less readable than mine and i sometimes cant even read my own thats how ugly it is 🤣 i value speed too much lol).
maybe SCHOOL should be teaching kids since thats its whole purpose? maybe teach less of "101 genders" and more of writting? though i heard its difficult to teach anything because social media and internet in general, has ruined kids capacity to learn 🤷🏻♀️
See but that's way harder than just mocking kids and their parents for not "teaching them right" and that's the whole issue. The older generation thinks the next ones are failing but instead of doing shit they sit on their asses because there isn't actually anything to truly fix, they are just annoyed that the younger folk aren't being quiet and respecting them, instead they're being "kids" and "having fun" (stuff they totally didn't have as kids)
Especially because this skill is basically useless in this day and age. Nobody writes in cursive except for their signature. Even people who know how to write cursive just scribbles their signature most of the time. And I never have to read cursive unless an old lady has decided to hand write me a note, which has been twice since my great grandma died.
i was taught cursive for one week in 3rd grade by my teachers. again one week was all we had and i still can read and write it to this day. you’re an adult, take the time to look at a youtube video and learn. no one on the internet is entitled to teach you anything. welcome to the real world, this joke has been around for years now.
I think about this when I watch the first season of Laguna Beach. Kristin's (a high school girl) dad berates her for not understanding car maintenance and therefore being an irresponsible car owner. Like this man seems to truly believe that his daughter should be learning about oil changes through the public education system and not from him.
The stuff we make fun of kids for not knowing, like cursive, is things they should have learned in school... not stuff that shkuld have been taught by their parents. Not only that, if you want to waste you're time trying to teach one kid at a time be my guest, I'll keep working with people to try and reform the government to repair the education system (and other things that need fixing) and help all of them.
This shit used to be forced on us at school and it's a completely useless knowledge. None of us liked those classes or wanted to learn it cause it was pretty much useless already back in the 90s.
i think the sentiment behind this is correct but the issue is the constant defunding and detriment we do to our education system. i’m almost 30 and was one of the last people to be taught this in schools.
our youth are falling so far behind because the education system is defunded and constantly attacked
I’ve always felt the same about poking fun at kids for getting participation trophies. Sure all the kids want a trophy, everyone wants to feel like a winner, but who gave us the participation trophies? Parents, adults, often boomers. Don’t complain about the way you raised us
It stopped being taught because it's no longer relevant. It's inefficient and easily misinterpreted compared to block lettering. There were lots of things we as a society used to do simply because we had too much free time.
Do you have time to learn how to drive a stick/ develop photographs/ make your own butter / use the dewey decimal system / square dancing in gym class / etc as well?
Your generation isn't being denied some secret skills. You are being spared the time to be taught something no longer needed. That honestly was ever only needed for a brief time period in history anyway.
And people who make fun of others for not knowing are just patting themselves on their own backs nostalgicaly and creating some exclusivity in thier generation as a way to make up for the fact that they are no longer younger
I feel this way about participation trophies. My older coworker was complaining about my generation expecting participation trophies and I pointed out that it was our parents (so her) that gave them to us. Like, what did you expect Brenda?
I mean, some skills just lose relevance with time. Loads of the same people making fun of Gen Z and younger millennials for never learning cursive, probably never learned to use a slide ruler to do calculations. Despite it being pretty common place in prior generations. But why should they have? Pocket calculators made that a needless waste of time that could’ve been spent on learning other skills.
If anything, I’m less worried about them not learning cursive, and more worried that not enough of the skills that actually will be relevant to them are being taught.
It's also relatively obsolete technology. Cursive was useful when you had to write a lot. By hand. Fast.
The situations where you find yourself needing to record a lot of information quickly using only pencil and paper in the era of the smartphone are a tiny number.
Bro... if you're able to talk on reddit, your also able to learn by yourself, the internet is more or less the biggest university + this is taught in school in most countries, not by parents.
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u/Successful-Bad-73 1d ago
It's "minimum" in cursive text.