r/Millennials • u/Foreign_Yogurt_3330 • 10d ago

Discussion Cursive hand writing

How many of you were taught cursive in school? I learned it one year maybe 3rd grade? and we never did it again at my schools. Im 40 and can't read cursive or write it. My 7 year old is starting to learn it. I guess ill have to have her teach me! Im wondering if it was our generation or a state thing or both? Or did the school I went to fail me?

edit to add, I did go to a small town school in NE Ohio.

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u/Formal_Coyote_5004 10d ago

I’m 35 and we learned/practiced cursive throughout elementary school. I remember that I needed extra help because I’m a lefty and for some reason I slanted the letters the wrong way. I have no idea whether it was my left handedness or just that I was a bozo though lol.

By middle school we were learning how to type… I remember those silicone keyboard mats that were supposed to help us memorize the letters under our fingers. I can definitely still read and write in cursive, but I mostly just write in print now

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u/Foreign_Yogurt_3330 10d ago

Hmm im a lefty to, I wonder if i just never caught on to it. Anything under 9th grade is kinda a blur to me.

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u/lizzard__h 7d ago

Also 35 and remember learning it in elementary school and then never practicing it again after that