I learned how to write it in school. I think we touched on it briefly in 3rd grade and then in 4th grade they got pretty strict about it. I remember I near failed penmanship that year all because my teacher didn't like how I write my capital Ds in cursive. It made me so mad. I write them with a curved sort of S shaped back instead of a stiff slanted line and it was apparently the end of the world.

Oh I'm 27 and this was public school.

I'm 32 and my 3rd-grade class did cursive lessons. I never got the hang of it though so have stuck to printing.

I'm in my mid-30s... I learned it (sort of) in 3rd grade, was forced to use it in a couple of classes in 5th and 7th grade (which I hated because I really hadn't mastered it yet)... I printed for years with the occasional attempt at cursive for a "fancy" title on something, but about 5 years ago, I finally decide to stop trying to make certain letters the "right" way (because that was my biggest hold-up) and figured out my own version of it. (I don't think anyone I know uses "proper" cursive honestly.) Now I use cursive 99% of the time, only using print when I am trying to write a tiny note in a margin or something.

The main reason I switched to cursive was because I was one of those people who would death-grip the writing implement, and it was really becoming a problem. With cursive, there is a flowing motion to it and less lifting the pencil off the page so I am able to relax more.

I'm almost 29 and I went to a public school where they started teaching us cursive around 3rd grade.

I actually grew up in the era of being told our assignments needed to be turned in done in cursive then being told no cursive only regular writing then being told no writing at all only typed and printed papers because teachers didn't want to put up with illegible handwriting.

Now I don't use it at all except for my signature for stuff and probably never will use it again outside of that tbh. If I had to go back to writing over typing I'd just stick to normal over cursive.

My author is 62 and he learned 'penmanship' in a private church school. They were still promoting the use of fountain pens for all business correspondence the 1960s and so penmanship was considered a necessary part of the curriculum for that reason. He started penmanship in third grade and his teacher was harsh. They used the Palmer Method of penmanship.

He can still use a fountain pen and still has his first fountain pen (Sheaffer No-Nonesense green) that he purchased for $2.50 in 1968 during 7th grade. It is an excellent pen, makes beautiful italic letters and you can still get cartridges of ink for it. You can still get new old stock No Nonsense pens from the 1960s on eBay for about $35.00, which is still a bargain. And even though his handwriting deteriorated during the years he did manual patient medical charting, he has worked hard to take up practicing the Palmer Method again and regain his penmanship abilities.

The classic ink of the day was Sheaffer Blue Script. It's about $12 dollars a bottle and you can refill old cartridges.

If you are looking for a good fountain pen for cheep, Pilot makes a disposable fountain pen in three colors.

Sheaffer, Parker, Cross, and Retro 1951 all make better quality fountain pens for under $60.00. If you're going to learn cursive, you might as well go ahead and learn to write with the tool cursive was developed for, the fountain pen.

Me...I do cursive, but I'm like Charlie Brown and I make a mess of things. I cursive with pencils.

I'm 27 and learned in private school, 3rd grade.

I believe throughout third and fourth grade is when we were taught cursive, and then expected to write every assignment in cursive from that point on unless it was printed on a computer. (public school, canada.)

I remember they told us we'd be using it for the rest of our lives and that adults don't print. boy, how things have changed. I know several people who were never taught and can't read cursive. It's really interesting!

Okay, so if I remember correctly, I only learned cursive writing for just one class day in 1st grade, and never used it after that.

To this day I still can't write/read cursive, and so when I try my hand at writing my own "signature" it looks too shaky (Ii forget I have shaky hands lmao) and here I am 24 (25 in March) and still can't comprehend cursive. xDDD

Hi, I'm 23 and I learned cursive writing in a public school around 3rd or 4th grade. It might possibly have even been 2nd grade, but it was definitely before I got into middle school (grades 6-8). I can still write in lower case cursive but if I have to write something besides my name in upper case cursive then I'm in trouble!

I'm 31 soon and I'm Finnish, "learned" cursive in school, though with a barely passing grade. My hands just wouldn't cooperate and my handwriting remains terrible to this day. I went to a public elementary school and we started learning handwriting on second grade, I was fine with the non-cursive writing, maybe a little clumsier than other kids, but still legible. Third grade was absolute pain, because that's when the cursive started and that was the end of my ability to write legibly. The teacher was very old-fashioned and told us we would never get a job or amount to anything unless we learned cursive, so I spent even my free time trying, and failing, to learn to write it well. Good riddance to that, some traditions and skills disappear out of main usage for a reason. Still admire good penmanship, just not my cup of tea.

Was forced to do it in grade 4-6 but afterwards they just stopped emphasising on it xD