Hi! I was having a conversation with my supervisor today and I'd like some feedback.

Did you learn to write in cursive? Was it in school or at home? What grade did you learn? Did you go to public or private school? How old are you?

I'm 23 and I learned how to write in cursive in school, around 1st to 3rd grade and we had an actual Handwriting class. I went to a private Catholic school until 6th grade though. I don't think my peers at public school had learned at all.

I'm 29. I did learn to write cursive at school progressively between 2nd and 4th grade. I don't think we had handwriting classes per se but we did spend a couple of weeks a year going over cursive writing and doing cursive writing homework and by the 4th grade we were eventually expected to write all of our homework in cursive. I went to a public school. Then entering 5th grade computers became a common thing and everyone stopped handwriting things lol.

I'm 24, I did in school - I think around 2nd grade? Public school. I didn't actually use it forever, and then I started to use it in university so I could stay awake while writing notes since I had to concentrate on writing more, haha. Now I still use it for notes and things like that but I always have an awkward 'aaah do I print or write' moment every time I write something down.

I'm 25, we learned it in 4th grade here in TX.

I'm 24 and we learned from about 3rd to 5th grade (public school) and I want to say we possibly had to use it in middle school but I'm not 100% sure on that. I know that by high school it wasn't required, so I can sign my name (I can write out my name in cursive also, since my signature is basically the first letter of each my first/last name followed by a scribble) but I can't remember quite a few of the other letters.

I work in a diner where a lot of our regular customers are old men so every so often I hear a lot of bitching about "they don't teach these kids nowadays anything!" including about learning cursive and personally I don't see the issue. Most people really only use it to sign their name anyway unless it's out of habit from The Old Days

Cursive started being phased out in public schools in 2012. I remember it being in the news that there were public schools that were no longer teaching cursive then.

Anyway, I'm 31, went to public school and was taught how to write cursive in 3rd grade. I still use it to write sometimes just for the hell of it but it's true I mostly write in print though.

I'm 24 and was taught cursive in school. Public school, upstate New York. I vividly remember being taught in 2nd grade because there was one lesson in particular that our teacher did that mixed things up a bit - we practiced the letter by tracing it in a dollop of shaving cream on our desks!

I write in a mixture of cursive/print but more cursive, almost never exclusively print, unless I want to make sure it's 100% legible aka idiot proof. I actually really love my handwriting and how fairly unique it is. Sad how they're phasing it out of public schools - people won't be able to read historical documents if they can't decipher it? But I guess things change - the script they used in, say, the Declairation of Independence isn't taught in school anymore, and is considered calligraphy. Technology is taking over almost all forms of communication and that rarely if ever has script/cursive fonts.

I'm 24, Canadian and I was taught cursive in 2nd grade I think? If not earlier and in a public school. We had separate textbooks and booksheets with little animals and cursive example. We had to copy the example shown (similar example). I'm glad I learned script and cursive because it's easier to create your signature. My little brother is 17 and he cannot sign documents in cursive and he's terrible. To me, it's important to learn it.

went to a private german school and learned cursive in first and second grade, the teacher even made us all buy proper calligraphy pens :v i also used to write in cursive when i switched to an italian school in third grade, and in italian schools you are expected to write in cursive during exams and such also i'm 20~

I'm 34, went to Catholic school where they taught cursive in 3rd grade, and I hated having to learn it. I'm left-handed, so after we had cursive writing my hand was covered in grey from going over everything I had written. Teachers also didn't like that my writing was always smeared, either.

I prefer to print so I can angle the paper and not have my hand going over what I've just written!

We had handwriting time in...maybe third grade? Somewhere around there, anyway. I'm...past college-age now, lol. I write in cursive whenever I can, because it seems like no one does it anymore. I love how it looks.

Went to public school and learned it early on probably 2nd grade ish. My favorite would have to be the cursive z. So fancy. O It's sad to see it being phased out of public schools. Shocking, really. :0 Cursive is an important thing to learn imo. Some countries prefer cursive. Like if I look at my relatives' handwriting, it's all very uniform and in cursive. Looks helluva lot more proper than my ugly block print which they think looks like a 5 year old wrote lmao. :"D

33 here, had penmanship class in fourth grade I think. I'm so sad that it's not being taught anymore. Cursive is beautiful.

I am 26 and I went to a private school. We learned in 2nd grade and up until 7th grade, we were required to write entirely in cursive on any homework given. I live in Virginia and many of my public school friends learned typing instead of cursive. My school had a typing class on top of learning cursive. Glad to have the experience of being one of the few in my friend group that can write in cursive rather well.

For a time I could, but once public high school came I stopped. They simply didn't require it. This was about twenty years ago.

Nowadays the only writing I still do is the occasional brain fart on a notebook. For a time I fancied the prospect of mirror writing, but my srcibbles were even more unintelligible.

And the only good writing I do at all is my signature. Which I had to cook up around 2000 to sign any documents. I'm 35. Thank you for reminding me...

I'm 25 and I learned cursive in grade 3 (I was 8 I believe). We were told we had to use cursive in high school and that all of our teachers would fail us if we didn't use it.

... yeah, we never used it.

I still like to write cursive sometimes though because it's pretty. My writing is pretty terrible in general though so my cursive writing is as godawful (if not more so) than my regular writing.

edited for spelling errors. how did "cursive" become "survive"?? 😂

I learned some. I was homeschooled. I was in about 2nd or 3rd grade. My grandfather took it upon himself to make sure that I knew how to fill up endless learning cursive handbooks whenever I stayed.

I was told I had to know how to use it by my grandparents; my mom was with me in the reasoning of "I know how to sign my name in cursive, why else do I need to know this?"

I got torn a new one for daring having that opinion by another elder. It's a dying art form!

29, public schooling. Learned in 2nd grade. By 3rd grade it was mandatory we wrote everything in cursive. I really do think it's a shame that they're not teaching it anymore. I will certainly be teaching my children myself. My personal, every day handwriting is pursive (a mixture of print and cursive), so it'd present a challenge if they couldn't read it.

I'm 27 and went to public school. I remember learning to write in cursive in 2nd-3rd grade. I remember it was mandatory too, up until middle school. It wasn't easy for me as cursive is harder to read, for me anyway. I eventually went back to writing in non-cursive even if it meant losing a few points from my grades. lol

I'm 27, Canadian, went to public school. Learned cursive sometime in elementary (grade 1 - 6), but I don't remember what grade..