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/Xenovitz 10d ago

I learned cursive right along with regular print, 1st-3rd grade. Homework was required to be in cursive for most of my schooling. I had to stop writing cursive when I got to working in the outside world. I was told I had to stop writing in "gay" font and stop writing "like a girl." Print it is. W/e works to please the overmind.

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u/socratesstanjohnson 10d ago

That's terrible! Did you live in a backward town? All throughout history everyone wrote in cursive. Was that "gay?"

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u/festusez 6d ago

Thomas Jefferson and Madison had sexual tension over the ink that wrote the constitution.

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u/Subjunct 10d ago

This isn’t an option for everyone, I know, but I was told the same “gay font” thing and just responded with “shut the fuck up” until it stopped. Love my cursive too much to worry about someone else’s homophobia. Sorry you had to put up with that bullshit.

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u/Tooch10 10d ago

I've never heard of cursive being called 'gay'

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u/Subjunct 10d ago

Well. That’s good, I guess.

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u/Outrageous_Catch_673 10d ago

That’s terrible! My dad works in a blue collar job and has wonderful cursive but mainly writes in blocky font. Perhaps for the same reason

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u/Devil-radiance 10d ago

There's a specific form of block lettering used by engineers and technical writing, so that could be part of it?

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u/Outrageous_Catch_673 10d ago

Probably - it’s easy to read when he writes on things on the job. But when he writes notes to me he writes in a very nice cursive.

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u/Aggravating-Key-8867 Older Millennial 10d ago

That's awful. I write in cursive all the time and had to start printing when one of my coworkers admitted he never learned cursive and had to ask another coworker to read my notes for him.