I remember I was taught a quite rigid way to write the alphabet when I went to elementary school in Austria and the quality of my writing being part of the grad

I remember I was taught a quite rigid way to write the alphabet when I went to elementary school in Austria and the quality of my writing being part of the grade. (And don't get me started on cursive) Thankfully that was mostly over sometime around middle school (although I was still required to write in cursive). Side note: The A's in the first example both look wrong to me since you're supposed to write the first two lines in one go without raising the pen. Having a discontinuity in the top corner is IMO a worse stylistic error than the placement of the middle line.