Cursive: Is It Dead?

Originally Posted by Tokubetsu

If I had to hand something in, I'd go script but it's pretty much cursive all the time otherwise. I grew up in Jamaica until the 9th grade though and you pretty much have to stop using script completely once you hit 5th or 6th grade or teachers won't grade your work. I was just used to doing everything in cursive.

My elementary school teachers used to say that's how things were in middle and high school, but not a word of it rang true. Teachers had a hard enough time trying to read students' printing let alone cursive.

The only time I remember needing cursive was the paragraph on the SAT that I had to copy stating that I wasn't cheating. It was pretty obvious that most of the people in the room didn't really remember how to write in cursive, and the proctor had to write out several of the letters on the board. Pretty useless to learn.

Jam it back in, in the dark.