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I know what you mean about writing causing pain in the hands and wrists... Have you ever tried cursive? I can write much longer and with less pain when using c
by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I know what you mean about writing causing pain in the hands and wrists...
Have you ever tried cursive? I can write much longer and with less pain when using cursive - really night and day.
- viraptor 5y ago> Have you ever tried cursive? Isn't that what people over 6yo use? I can't tell if I misunderstood the question or just experienced some serious culture shock...
- hundchenkatze 5y agoI'm in the U.S. and I learned cursive about that age. I'm 30 now, and the only thing I write in cursive these days is my signature (which for the record looks awful). I'm fairly certain cursive is no longer taught in public schools in my area.
- viraptor 5y agoSo people just write in block letters instead?
- csa 5y agoYes. Schools stopped teaching it (even many “good” schools). People largely don’t use it except for signatures. I personally switched to block letters a long time ago because I can’t read my own cursive when I am writing quickly. My penmanship sucks.
- zsmi 5y ago> Schools stopped teaching it Wow. Do kids not have hand written assignments anymore? I can't even imagine having to write out, say a 5 page essay, in block letters by hand.
- likpok 5y agoI don't think schools (in the US) have been requiring handwritten assignments (of any length) for decades at this point.
- csa 5y agoI just asked my nephew (17) and niece (21) about this. Both went to good Catholic schools in the Midwest. Neither had to learn cursive. They say that they haven’t hand written assignments for many years. My niece, a university student, doesn't even know what “blue books” are.
- muffinman26 5y agoA 5 page essay probably wouldn't be written by hand (to make sure everyone wrote a consistent 5 pages), but in-person tests certainly are. In college/high school I remember having to write 2 essays in two hours long-hand for multiple tests in the last decade. We just use block letters. People in my generation find cursive illegible and clumsy, but with practice writing block letters can be plenty fast.
- Multicomp 5y agoThis news distressed me. However, I'm glad to report that 14 states never stopped and/or restarted Cursive lessons according to [1]. Alabama Arizona Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachussets Mississippi North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia https://mycursive.com/the-14-states-that-require-cursive-writing-state-by-state/ https://mycursive.com/the-14-states-that-require-cursive-wri...
- Zababa 5y agoI personally do because my cursive is unreadable, even by myself.