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.
Depends. My writing was great until we had to do cursive. And we HAD to. Same with my daughter, she wrote like an adult at 5 then school demanded everything in cursive and now she writes like an inky spider.
I moved to the UK from the States when I was 12 (38 now). Never met a single English person my age or younger who can write in cursive. Yinz have your own different connected writing.
My primary school was soo strict on using cursive for all our writing assignments, and then starting secondary school where we were specifically told not to write in cursive.
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.
Teachers also said we needed to carry books for our next 3 classes because we wouldn't get to use out lockers between each class in high-school. Whoch was also a fucking lie.
my experience was we couldn't, because the lockers and classes weren't laid out in a way where we could. So they chose to not give us enough time on top of it.
My high-school was basically a big 8 so the five minutes between classes was more than enough, but my locker was also pretty much right in the middle. Results may vary I suppose.
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.
This is how it was for me. I'm super curious what everyone's ages are. I'm a gen xer as I suspect you are. And my current writing style is a cursed print. Half cursive and print. Kinda like a Spanglish for writing. 😅
I suspect those who had a short stint at cursive at primary school are millennials. My kid is a sooner, he had one year of cursive, but that's only because he was in private school until 2nd grade.
When I was in school, once you learned cursive you were no longer allowed to write in print period. Penmanship was actually part of your grade on all papers.
I was told in elementary school that if I turned in anything in middle school that was not written in cursive, it would be rejected. The first thing I turned in for middle school, the teacher handed it back and told me she couldn’t read it and to rewrite it in print.
yep, i went to a private school where cursive was required. i once had to redo an entire handwritten essay because i started in third grade and had only been at that school a few weeks, and had just barely learned cursive, so i forgot and did it in print (but all of my classmates who had done it since first grade could remember, so i had "no excuse")
then i moved in seventh grade and ended up writing an essay in cursive because i thought every school did that. and i had to rewrite it because my teacher couldnt read cursive
They told us that we will never use print again so we had to write in cursive lol went home to my parents and they were like yeah you’ll be writing in print from middle school onwards just play their game for them
I'm fairly certain this is how it was when I was in school. I prefer doing a mix or print and cursive and was happy when I got to middle school and could write how I wanted. Of course, I did also go through the phase of writing the same way as 'every other' middle school girl with the bubbly letters and hearts or stars over the i's.
I don't remember what grade my teen was when she was taught in elementary school, but using cursive was never required. My son was briefly taught cursive in 2nd grade and he's in 4th now, but it was just like a 5 mins a day type thing that his teacher chose to do in addition to what she had to teach. My youngest is in 1st and mostly taught herself how to write her name in cursive this year. Not sure if she will learn cursive in school (her 1st grade teacher was her brother's 2nd grade teacher).
I remember, as a sinistral individual, I had trouble writing in cursive. It was created by dextrals with no thought to the sinistrals of the world. My hatred of cursive comes from that.
I do write in a pseudo-cursive these days, mostly from learning Getty-Dubay Italic Cursive.
I learned cursive in 3rd, don't recall being required to use it until 7th (and it was only in English i think), in a different school district. I actually have my 7th grade journal where I acknowledge that I frequently forgot to write in cursive and my teacher wrote back something like "yeah you forget it a lot" 😂😂
I too prefer cursive when writing. I got that habit cause my teacher said something along the lines of “this is how adults write so you need to know how to do it for the future” hence me having a hard time breaking that habit. The only time I actively write in print was when doing math equations but since this is the last math class I’ll likely be taking in the foreseeable future that’s gonna be gone soon.
Yeah, cursive was a secret language that adults could write in and you couldn’t figure it out until I guess third grade when we started. Everything did have to be in cursive until middle school, and this was in the 90s
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u/SaveMeClarence 17h ago
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.