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My kids are in year 2 and 5. Year 5 had perfectly legible handwriting (not quite as good as the stuff in the image, but pretty good) until they forced the joine
by iso1631 5y ago
My kids are in year 2 and 5. Year 5 had perfectly legible handwriting (not quite as good as the stuff in the image, but pretty good) until they forced the joined up shit starting in year 3.
Looking at other words on the wall confirms this is normal - writing goes back severely in KS2 because of this 1960s view that you have to be able to write large amounts of prose at speed.
- gavinray 5y agoI was born in 1997, I recall a faint effort being made to teach us cursive in about 5th grade, but neither myself nor anyone my age I know can write it. I can only write print. I don't see the use for cursive, and I said as much when I was 10 (I already had a personal computer, if I was going to write something long it'd be faster for me to type it).
- Symbiote 5y agoI've looked at some teaching materials and examples for KS2 and KS3 in England. It seems there's now more emphasis on letter forms than there was in the 1990s, when I was being taught "joined-up writing". I didn't have to put a stupid tail on the left of the C at the beginning of "cat", or any other round initial letter. Let alone the tail on a lower case initial H, or any capital letters.