• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    From 7th grade onward I believe we were able to ensure that the school had to legally accept typed assignments. It was the only way I could complete them on time.

    I was fine with handwriting math since no sadist had yet invented cursive numerals.

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      11 months ago

      Good for you that your school was willing to adapt to your needs, but surely that was not the norm for millennials when they were in school. I never went to school in the US but I don’t believe that classroom activities (tests, note taking, exercises, etc) were normally done on computers in the 90s/00s/early '10s…

      So why did those kids stop using cursive, at a time when hand-writing was frequently needed? My point is that it can only have been taught wrong if it was not legible or fast enough for most kids to see a point in using it.

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        11 months ago

        Or perhaps it’s not actually needed.

        I think it’s the same reason that not everybody learns horse riding or basket weaving.