Gay Gayerson, the Gth on Nostr: Guys, I am in my 40s, and I have never, ever, needed cursive. I'm not surprised ...
Guys, I am in my 40s, and I have never, ever, needed cursive. I'm not surprised they're phasing it out. You don't even need it for your signature (not in USA at least) it's just a legal if you use print.
You know why cursive exists?
Because of the kind of pens everyone used had thin runny ink. It was an adaptation to solve a mechanical issue. We have better pens now!
That's why cursive is so hard to do with a ballpoint pen, the most popular pen, and the same ones school kids use to learn cursive with. The ink in ballpoint pens is thicker, stickier, and drags across the page. It makes cursive harder to do. It's why so many of us tore right through the paper when we were kids (or still do).
In my experience, they stopped requiring cursive by 6th grade That was 1988, I was 11. They wanted your reports and papers typed instead of cursive. Even teachers didn't want to read cursive. Or they realized we were heading into a keyboard age. Typing was a required class at one of the schools I went to.
You know why cursive exists?
Because of the kind of pens everyone used had thin runny ink. It was an adaptation to solve a mechanical issue. We have better pens now!
That's why cursive is so hard to do with a ballpoint pen, the most popular pen, and the same ones school kids use to learn cursive with. The ink in ballpoint pens is thicker, stickier, and drags across the page. It makes cursive harder to do. It's why so many of us tore right through the paper when we were kids (or still do).
In my experience, they stopped requiring cursive by 6th grade That was 1988, I was 11. They wanted your reports and papers typed instead of cursive. Even teachers didn't want to read cursive. Or they realized we were heading into a keyboard age. Typing was a required class at one of the schools I went to.