Does anyone still write cursive?

[Anonymous]

Fun fact: writing cursive is way easier with a ballpoint pen than with a fountain pen.

I used to buy fountain pens because they are so pretty and fun, but actually my smoothest penmanship comes out with cheap ballpoint pens you can buy at Walmart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids are learning it in some elementary schools, but are they practicing? I’ve been writing/practicing cursive for 30 years and it’s not easy to continue to because I rarely write theee days.

My 12yo asked me how to write in half cursive half print, which is what my notes to her look like? She wanted to know how I know which letters to connect and which ones to write individually! SMH “it’s laziness”

My kids store their journals in trunks and they are all in cursive. They all write daily and they save their journals.

[Anonymous]

Your unearned white privilege shows when you write cursive.

[Anonymous]

My whole family does. DH and I write our notes in cursive. Our kids learned in Catholic school and do use it in college. One professor even told my oldest that her handwriting “is a beautiful font all on its own” which made us laugh.

[Anonymous]

Who is the bitter white supremacist troll who keeps trying to sound like a woke leftist in this thread? Newsflash: it's not working. It's annoying. Get a therapist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your unearned white privilege shows when you write cursive.

Yeah, hand-eye coordination is inherently white, right...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just another way that people will be vulnerable to manipulation once no one can read historic documents…

This is a really, really stupid take. You know that, right? Just how many significant historical documents do you think there are that: a) are significant bulwarks against manipulation; b) have not been converted to type; and c) are in a form of English that is comprehensible to an American that can't or won't learn cursive?

So, what is your motive in making such an assertion? You have an emotional attachment to cursive that can't be driven by your purported "vulnerable to manipulation" concern but you advanced that concern-trolling "vulnerable to manipulation" nonsense for ... what reason?

Read "Animal Farm." Converted to type means nothing when none of you can read the original....

[Anonymous]

I do not, DH does not, DS1 does not but DS2 loves it and writes everything in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's taught in Montessori school, but that's probably about it.

+ Catholic school

[Anonymous]

If people haven't been taught cursive then what will their legal signatures look like?

Signed,
JOHN DOE

[Anonymous]

Problem is that children who do not write cursive also cannot read it. Old documents may as well be a foreign language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your unearned white privilege shows when you write cursive.

Yeah, hand-eye coordination is inherently white, right...

Printing gives the same motor skills benefits. Settle down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just another way that people will be vulnerable to manipulation once no one can read historic documents…

This is a really, really stupid take. You know that, right? Just how many significant historical documents do you think there are that: a) are significant bulwarks against manipulation; b) have not been converted to type; and c) are in a form of English that is comprehensible to an American that can't or won't learn cursive?

So, what is your motive in making such an assertion? You have an emotional attachment to cursive that can't be driven by your purported "vulnerable to manipulation" concern but you advanced that concern-trolling "vulnerable to manipulation" nonsense for ... what reason?

Read "Animal Farm." Converted to type means nothing when none of you can read the original....

If we fall to fascism, it’s not going to be because kids didn’t learn cursive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Problem is that children who do not write cursive also cannot read it. Old documents may as well be a foreign language.

Most old documents are in a foreign language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If people haven't been taught cursive then what will their legal signatures look like?

Signed,
JOHN DOE

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