My third grade teacher taught us cursive and forced us to use it that year... I don't remember any other teacher making us write in script. Even though my handwriting is now a strange combination of cursive and plain ol' handwriting but I'm so glad she put us through it!

I'm 23 and went to public school, where I learned cursive in either second or third grade, pretty sure it was third. Then my fourth grade teacher made us write all of our assignments in cursive because it would supposedly be the only acceptable handwriting when we got older. Well, when I got older some teachers wouldn't even accept work written in cursive! My younger sister is 20 and claims she can't read cursive at all, although I'm pretty sure she learned it in elementary school too. I do still use it when I write or take notes sometimes because I like my writing to look pretty hahaha

Cursive was mandatory when I was in school, and my parents insisted on it. In school we'd get our hands slapped if we didn't use it, and my father would give me a clip upside the head if he caught me not using it. I enjoy the smoothness and look of cursive, but often write in print and in all capitals. People - especially younger folk - tend to be able to read print easier. I'm in my 60s.

I'm also 23; I remember being taught cursive writing pretty seriously in 3rd grade, and they made us use it through 5th grade (public school), insisting that we were going to have to use it in college, etc.

The only time I've ever been required to write in cursive was on the SATs; you had to copy the oath (to not cheat? something like that) in cursive and sign your name. Heard a bunch of people complaining that they didn't remember how! It was pretty funny.

I'm in grad school for public history and a lot of my work in the past few years has been in archives; even though I know how to write cursive myself, I have trouble reading it from other people (as said above). The older stuff especially; letters just aren't as defined. (I thanked sweet heaven when on my most recent project I got to the late 1920s and all their correspondence was finally typewritten.)

I learned cursive writing in school in grade three, I think it was. I went to a public school.

Yeah, I had to learn cursive in 3rd grade too. Never really used it afterwards though.

I'm 24, graduated in 2011. I don't remember learning very much cursive writing in school, but my grandmother made a point to teach me, especially during the time when I was being homeschooled.

I do a half-print half-write when I write things down for myself, but if it needs to be neat I print exclusively. I don't like how my cursive looks. I'm so envious when I have little old ladies at work with beautiful signatures and there's mine looking like a walrus did it by comparison.

I’m 23 and went to a private middle and elementary school, so yes I learned it there! It’s not super useful now, but I still enjoy writing in cursive just for fun anyway.

I'm 35 and went to a very small, rural public school where cursive was taught starting in 4th grade. In fact, I started learning a bit of it on my own at home in 2nd grade, and when I showed it to my teacher she made me stop because I wasn't supposed to be ready for it yet. >_> It was definitely required once you hit the right age, though... just discouraged if you tried to get ahead I guess, lol.

I learned cursive writing, but I can't remember exactly when. It was sometime in grade school (public), but that is all I remember.

I'm 25, American, public school, and I learned cursive preeeetty early on? I'm still pretty good at it, but that's likely because I had to hand-pen things for a REALLY long time there. I'm TERRIBLE at doing the Z's though!

I learned how to write in cursive, but my little sis (who is 16) can barely read it much less write it.

I'm a senior in high school, Canadian, and go to a private school.

I learned cursive in Grade 3. I remember spending many classes learning each letter of the cursive alphabet and being forced to write out the "good copy" of our assignments in cursive. So if we'd write a story in Language Arts (English), we'd first write out a rough draft in print before writing a final, edited copy in cursive that would be displayed on boards. We were told that we needed to learn this for high school, where we'd be asked to submit all our assignments in cursive.

Perhaps this was the norm when I was in Grade 3, but as a current high school student, I can definitely say that I've never been asked to submit anything in cursive. By Grade 6 or 7, we were typing and printing all of our assignments. The only use cursive has had for me is writing my signature and writing fast.

I don't think cursive is taught anymore at my school, but personally, I think this is a good thing. Other skills like typing, learning how to use a computer and popular software like Word or Excel is much more important. At my school, we have both an elementary and high school, and as someone who went through both, it's clear that elementary did not prepare us for high school at all. We spent a lot of time doing fun and interesting things like cursive but not a lot of time on learning the basics such as grammar rules, which came back to bite us in the behind in high school. The great thing about the internet is that it's easy to learn skills like cursive on your own. I don't think that it's necessary to include it in school curriculum.

I'm 27 and yes. I went to public school in Michigan.

I'm 31, went to public school in Virginia. We learned in 3rd grade. I remember my teacher made me stay in from recess one time because we were practicing writing lowercase S's and I wanted to just hurry and get through it.. apparently they sucked and she made me stay in and re-do them all.

Yep... we all had to learn it since kindergarten, but by 5th grade everyone kind of gave up on trying to impose cursive.

Yeah! Still write in cursive when I wanna make it pretty :*

It was 3rd grade, when I was growing up, 70s. We learned cursive & we were not allowed to write in anything but pencil until the teacher deemed our writing worthy of ink. I was one of the last to be able to use pen.... hehehhe Then in college my German teacher was making us write in German normal script. heheheh. letters were formed differently from what I had learned, & I got my grammatically perfect German homework back with red all over where he had corrected my cursive

I'm 22 and do know how to write in cursive. I mostly write in cursive when I write anything. I find it easier than writing standard print. I learned around 1st-3rd grade, but also practiced at home. I went to public school and whenever we did formal writing they wanted us to write in cursive for most classes and standardized tests through high school.

I'm in my 50s. :D In my time (back in the Jurassic era), cursive was on the Canadian curriculum somewhere around second or third grade, but I actually learned to read, write (and print) earlier than that (my mother was a teacher, and she started instructing me as soon as I was old enough to hold a book and pencil). I also had an interest in calligraphy, so that helped. For many years, cursive was the only accepted means of doing schoolwork (printing was considered 'childish' and you were penalized for using it, and computers didn't exist), so everyone in my peer group learned it and used it, like it or not.

I still write in cursive, although my handwriting isn't as nice/readable as it once was; like many other people, my basic form of current communication is typing, and I'm used to putting down words at a certain speed. I can type 80 wpm, but I sure as hell can't write 80 wpm, even though my brain tells me that's how fast I should go (so my normal handwriting has deteriorated into a quickly-scrawled mess). If I concentrate and take my time, I can still write in perfect cursive.

Although computerized text has become the norm, I still mourn the loss of cursive from the curriculum - many historical documents are written in cursive, and (IMO) there's something beautiful about flowing script (versus 10 pt Arial or Times). I applaud those who still wish to learn and keep it alive.