Cursive

[Hanshotfirst1138]

I do almost all of my writing on the computer because my handwriting is atrocious, but I do admit, I'll be sad to see cursive go if it does, there is a sort of aesthetic beauty to it.

 

[PC!]

I remember spending a good two months learning cursive. TWO MONTHS!

Pssh, that's all? In third grade, we were REQUIRED to write cursive for EVERYTHING. The ENTIRE YEAR.

Ooh, what a year that was.

 

[Storm Eagle]

Pssh, that's all? In third grade, we were REQUIRED to write cursive for EVERYTHING. The ENTIRE YEAR.

Same with me, like I said. Though in my case, it was at a new school. I wonder if the previous school I went to would have made cursive mandatory to learn if I stayed for third grade (and even beyond). Now that I think about it, I wonder if first and second graders were made to learn cursive at the new school. It went from first to sixth grade at the time by the way, while the previous school went from kindergarten to sixth grade.

 

[Gold Guy]

Pssh, that's all? In third grade, we were REQUIRED to write cursive for EVERYTHING. The ENTIRE YEAR.

Ooh, what a year that was.

As someone who dislikes cursive, I feel your pain. That sounds horrific.

 

[Shawn Hopkins]

Pssh, that's all? In third grade, we were REQUIRED to write cursive for EVERYTHING. The ENTIRE YEAR.

Ooh, what a year that was.

A year? I learned cursive in second grade and wrote pretty much every paper and assignment that had any significant handwriting component in it until I graduated from college.

 

[Jave]

Wha?

I only wrote in cursive all through school. Tons of papers and tests in english and spanish, all in cursive for 12 whole years.

When I graduated form school and entered college I self-taught myself to write in print-style. I'm not sure if I can still write cursive (outside of my signature) since I haven't tried in almost a decade, but I suppose I still can do it.

 

[EroSennin]

I learned cursive in elementary school and all essays or book reports had to be in cursive. I absolutely hated it and even at age 8 I knew we should be doing better things with our time. In 6th grade we all took Keyboarding for 1 semester and learned on typewriters. In 7th grade we took a computer class for 1 semester and by high school all reports had to be typed and essays written in print.

Other than my signature which you really can't call legible I haven't used cursive in almost 20 years.

 

[G. Wen]

O.K., people, being required to write papers in cursive for an entire year/rest of high school is not learning how to write cursive, that's learning how to write papers, formulate sentences, etc. You're just doing it in cursive. Learning how to write cursive is spending two whole months doing nothing but writing A's, then B's, then C's, then D's, then E's... you get the point. So unless you guys spent a whole year writing nothing but alphabet letters, I don't want to hear any complaining about how I had it easy. As an artist who can do calligraphy and typography, learning cursive is a waste of time in class. It makes sense in an art class or graphic design class, but not as something that needs two months dedication in a regular class.

 

[Michael24]

I wish I had a nicer signature. I always tell my mom how jealous I am of her's. Her signature is always so nice and flowing. I can barely ever seem to write mine the same way twice, and it always looks like a messy scribble. LOL!

 

[defunctzombie]

You don't have a signature if you don't know cursive.

Not completely true. In some cases a simple mark like an X can count as a signature.

 

[Light Lucario]

I think that I was required to write in cursive for most of elementary school and maybe middle school. I really didn't like it, especially when I first started since my handwriting size was so big it looked like I was just starting to learn how to write and that was during the fourth grade after I knew how to write in cursive. That just led to more people making fun of me for my handwriting size. I'm pretty sure I stopped by somewhere in my first year of high school. I remember a few cursive letters, but I don't think I could remember all of them that aren't a part of my signature.

 

[SilentBat18]

Big cursive writer here. The moment i learned it, i refused to write in print. I actually got points deducted for not writing in print, which made me wonder what was the point in being taught cursive if i couldnt use it. Anyway, although i wrote in cursive for god knows how long, it was my dad who finally said i should change cause my handwriting was so illegible (to the point i should have been a doctor). He didnt know how i got away with it in high school but he made me start writing in print for the entire summer before starting college. I did, and then i started college... So i did what i wanted. Now i write a combination of cursive and print so its more legible.

I wonder why people dont write it cursive anymore. Its so much faster even if you are writing a few words for notes. I find it useful at my job since we have to handwrite progress notes due to confidentiality rules. The intern who gave me her clients before she left also wrote her notes in cursive and i can decipher most of it. They guy before her though, he printed and i cant read a thing. Weird, i know.

 

[RockmanDash]

I was slightly taught to learn cursive, though the schools here in California never regulated me to use it for essays. I probably would have continued to forget that cursive writing strongly exists(outside of the usual signature) in other areas if it wasn't for this thread .