random poll

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Super busy. Am suddenly curious about this. Apparently most kids entering college in the US this year don't know how to write in cursive. I suspect this is less a sign of the apocalypse than it feels like to me.

So, tell me things (as usual, poll is un-scientific and reflects my biases and experiences (and 49-year-olds can choose which age category they like better!) -- if the boxes don't work, my apologies and comments super welcome.):

[Poll #1607173]

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[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I went to a suburban public school through to 8th grade, and in junior high (7th and 8th) we had shop and home ec (which included sewing and cooking) switch off, one each semester, and art and music switched off in the same way.

I learned calligraphy in jr high art classes and took Latin as well. This was a well-funded upper-middle class suburban school district that is still rated one of the best in Massachusetts.

I'm middle-moving-up, as Mom and Dad definitely grew up lower middle, and now I have the tastes of upper-middle but the income of working poor.

I think class definitely enters into it. My cousins who were from the more lower-middle town went to the vo-tech, while my brother and a different set of cousins went to the private Catholic high school that was the closest college prep school to the Cape.