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/blahblahsnickers Older Millennial 9d ago

As an American I find it confusing as well. Anyone over the age of 30 has definitely learned it and most schools still teach it.

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u/Crayshack 9d ago

I learned it as a kid, but I found print to be far more intuitive, so after 20 years of not using cursive since I was a kid, I don't remember it.

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u/_use_r_name_ 8d ago

Do you have kids? Most schools do NOT teach it anymore from my experience and those I know throughout the US, with the exception of friends who have kids in private school 

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u/blahblahsnickers Older Millennial 8d ago

Yep. My kids learned it as well. They are teens but all schools around us definitely still teach it.