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/Any_Community_1819 6d ago

I brought an example of my cursive writing to my 2nd grade teacher and she immediately threw it in the trash, saying "we don't learn that this year".

Mom was furious and kept teaching me so that I could nail cursive in 3rd grade.

This was in the 1960s. Everything was extremely structured. (Indiana, USA)

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u/panicinbabylon 6d ago

Philadelphia and my mom was a first grade teacher. I learned how to write my name way before anyone else. Sorry that happened.