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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I switched schools for high school after being in a British private school since the first grade. I was shocked at seeing anyone write in block print for the first time. Up until then I genuinely thought that cursive was the only way to hand-write and that block was reserved for little kids just learning to write.

EDIT: That school even had a calligraphy class that taught us how to write with a fountain pen. I have no idea what world they were preparing us for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I learned cursive in Canada after living in the UK for a while. When I went back to the UK and went to Sheffield everyone was like, "he knows how to do the joint up writing!" I can't remember the exact year but we were going to start preparing for our GCSEs. Then I left again and went back to Canada.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I am American but I spent my childhood in the Caribbean. My mom wanted to make sure I had a good education so she enrolled me in a private school started and run by a posh British couple to educate the children of the expats stationed there back when agricultural exports were big business (1950's??). I think they taught us they way they were taught as children in their preppy schools at the turn of the century.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

what do you think about learning cursive and how people don't use it anymore?

I still love it, I also taught myself calligraphy and bust out a fountain pen when someone asks me to sign a birthday or farewell card :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don't think about it much since to me writing cursive is "just how it is", but I do wonder why they stopped teaching it. It is so much faster for note-taking.

In my high-school's defense, they did teach us touch typing, which has come in far more handy than cursive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

People got more polite. They wanted their reading to be more legible to others, even if it took a little bit longer.