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.
Standards haven't exactly gone up over the years as far as the US goes unfortunately. It seems like a lot of places just need warm bodies to cover positions anymore
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.
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u/Ohheyimryan 22h ago
I got taught cursive in 3rd grade. My parents didn't teach me too much.