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Eh, depends on your school? In NYC, I went to a public school where they were pretty strict and repetitive with teaching basic writing down to the stroke direct

• sinkasapa 6y ago
  I had penmanship in elementary school. Lot's of boring repetitions filling class time, cursive as well. We all forgot about it later on like some mild trauma that we collectively buried. I actually remember feeling surprised when I didn't have to use cursive in college. I'm not saying that all the emphasis on nitpicks was ever good and I'm definitely not shedding any tears but there are definite signs that we're losing knowledge of the handwritten tradition. See this humorous Language Log post as an example: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3489 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3489