General Discussion

So I lived a decent part of my life in England, and during that time, in school, we had to learn how to write in cursive. We would have to write almost everything in cursive, there were very few exceptions. We also had to glue our homework to our notebooks but that's a different story.

So now whenever people see me write in cursive out of habit they're like "Oh you know cursive? That's so cool, I never had the patience to learn cursive"

And it's just like....Yeah, thanks, I didn't have a choice.

Did anyone else have to learn cursive when they were younger?

yeah i had to learn cursive through 1st grade to 3rd grade

it's wack and i still know how to write it. except im not as good as i was in 1st grade

Yes!
In third grade, we had to learn cursive.
Every morning, the teacher would sit us down and we had these green booklets that had dotted lines and he’d look over our shoulders and criticise our writing.
“Your r’s look too much like n’s.”
“Don’t loop your I’s that way, do it this way.”
“Make sure your capitals touch the top and bottom lines!”
He’d make us write in cursive for what felt like decades, but it was about an hour...
If you got in trouble, he’d make us write our full name in cursive 20 times...
And don’t get me started on fourth grade. ._.

I did, yeah.

In Junior School we did writing in pencil until we were good at cursive, then we got to use Berol pens (those red ones with the blue ends) while we learned to write in something that couldn't just be rubbed out and then after that... Fountain Pen for Maximum Cursive Action.

Weirdly enough, as soon as I went to Secondary School I wrote in biro and now my writing's big, round and non-cursive, haha.

i had to in third grade and i think it made my handwriting worse in the long run?? i also had to learn calligraphy in fifth grade, which i don't remember anything about at all

cursive can look really nice, i was just really spiteful and petty as a kid and hated being told that i had to write in cursive. i've kind of incorporated it into my half-print half-cursive handwriting, but i really don't think i gained anything through learning it :/

I did, in third grade. I don't remember teachers being particular about whether you used cursive writing for assignments after fourth or fifth grade or so, as long as it was legible.

@whalesbone I feel you, it took me so long to learn to write neatly without cursive, and even now my non-cursive handwriting is kinda sloppy. I use some elements of cursive in my current handwriting but I'm finally starting to let go of habit and use print more often lol.

Also the only time I think I ever had to learn calligraphy was in art class in 6th grade and oh boy I hated it.

In 2nd grade, I had to
Then I never did it again

I remember having to learn cursive in 3rd grade, but we only practiced it like once a week for about half the year, so basically nobody learned how to write it. Frankly, I would've preferred spending that time learning to improve my regular handwriting since that needs work, but nope, instead waste time trying to teaching me something without bothering to do it properly.

Then in 7th grade we were forced to write stuff in cursive briefly until my language teacher grasped the idea that we just weren't taught it to any meaningful degree and it was making the class take way to long to finish assignments.

Since finishing middle school I've seen very little cursive, especially since most stuff is digital/printed nowadays anyway, though I can still kinda read it despite having trouble with recognizing capital letters.