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Cursive with a ballpoint pen feels really different from cursive with a fountain pen. If these schools want to talk about cursive as a form of artistry or indiv

• shanacarp 10y ago
  basically true, I didn't really understand my own handwriting and how to write until I switched pens
• eru 10y ago
  In Germany they used to use fountain pens in school almost exclusively. (Not sure if that's still the case. It was up to ten years ago, definitely.)
  • aries1980 10y ago
    In Hungary in the 80s, in the first two years we had to use fountain pens as well. Dodgy ones, didn't like it, but now I have my decent collection and I love them. People still learn cursive writing in .hu, it is much faster writing in that style.
• xbmcuser 10y ago
  These days ball point pen have become thin enough that cursive writing is not bad or ugly. But children and teachers should be taught not to use a thick ball point pen.
  • LyndsySimon 10y ago
    It's not about line width, it's about the amount of pressure one uses to write, and the angle at which they hold the pen.