• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    One thing I’ve picked up from these threads over time is that different places mean different things by “cursive”.
    In some places it’s treated as “how to write legibly by hand quickly” and in others it’s more of a formal writing system designed for signatures and the like.
    For example, we were required to use it while learning it, and then told not to use it for handwritten assignments once we left elementary school. It was preferred that things were written using print or typed was strongly preferred.

    Kids now don’t even have to write by hand as much, because typing is a vastly more practical skill.

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      11 months ago

      Assignments were all done in Word, that’s normal, I mean it more like taking notes during class.

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        11 months ago

        Notes weren’t graded, but assignments had to be handwritten in perfect cursive until it switched to being unacceptable to use cursive.

        Because they weren’t teaching efficient handwriting, they were teaching a second, slightly more formal, alphabet that can’t be used in most circumstances.