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> 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
by 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.