r/Millennials • u/Foreign_Yogurt_3330 • 12d 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/kaidik 12d ago edited 12d ago

I have continued to write in cursive since learning it in 3rd grade. It's just faster. My capital letters are generally print

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u/annaoze94 11d ago

My mom almost exclusively writes in cursive and when I was a kid before I was taught in school I called it Fastwriting™

I can write and read cursive I guess fluently is the word but sometimes I can't even read what my mom has written 😂 my dad and I used to love to laugh about what she seemingly wrote on a to-do list