It's Like a Foreign Language
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (173137)
Boise, Idaho
April 13, 2025 3:44pm CST
I have had several young people tell me that they couldn't read what I had written because it was in cursive. Like it was some foreign language. They hadn't learned it in school. So, I had to either print it instead, decipher it for them or, tell them what I needed. It really slowed things down.
I can remember how pain staking the teacher was teaching my class. How I had to practice some letters over and over to get them right.
Were you taught cursive writing in school?
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@RasmaSandra (83906)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Apr
I certainly was and both in my regular grade school and in Latvian school on Saturdays and in Latvian school with those scribbed ink pens,
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@celticeagle (173137)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Apr
Oh, yes. Even the pens were different then.
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@DaddyEvil (145780)
• United States
13 Apr
Yes, I was taught cursive writing in school... I never really liked using it, though, so still printed most assignments and I still print if I'm leaving notes for anyone.
Pretty graduated in 2006 and the school was getting away from cursive penmanship at that time. They still taught her how to write the cursive alphabet but didn't make her use it. I believe after she graduated, the school stopped making the kids learn how to write in cursive. (The school teachers said everybody was typing everything out on computers so there was no reason to learn anything except enough cursive to sign their names.)
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@celticeagle (173137)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Apr
Yes, I can see their reasoning. My grandson would have graduated in about 2020 and they weren't teaching it.
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@DaddyEvil (145780)
• United States
13 Apr
@celticeagle I've still seen younger adults printing their names instead of signing paperwork. I worked with several younger people that couldn't read cursive or sign their names. The just scribble-printed them.
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@celticeagle (173137)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Apr
@DaddyEvil .......Someone (don't recall who. a Lawyer or ?) had a bit of a problem with my grandson printing his signature.
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@RebeccasFarm (93632)
• United States
15 Apr
To me, this is devastating really..cursive is creativity in itself and they are being denied to learn it.
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@celticeagle (173137)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Apr
And with new curriculums around the country what are they spending time learning instead?
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@celticeagle (173137)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Apr
@Juliaacv .......I see. I think it is good to know but not used often I suppose so I can see why it may not be in the curriculum.
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@Juliaacv (53046)
• Canada
13 Apr
@celticeagle My grands have a ways to go before I will know or not, and even then our education systems do differ. When my son was in grade 2 he was in a grade 2/3 split class and the grade 3's learnt it and the teacher told me that our son picked it up then.
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@LindaOHio (186650)
• United States
14 Apr
Yes and I'm amazed that they took it out of the school curriculum in some areas.
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@celticeagle (173137)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Apr
I just use it for most things I write except for my grandson and I have to print.
@BarBaraPrz (49278)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Apr
Yes, I was taught cursive in school, but I would change styles all the time.
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@kaylachan (76879)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Apr
Yes, I was. I can still write it, but I can't read it anymore. Vision loss, but yes.... I still write that way.
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