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