random poll

[rm]

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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[arianhwyvar.livejournal.com]

My middle school was like this too -- it was only grades 7-8, but in 7th grade everyone did a rotation that included home ec (cooking and sewing, but I didn't mark cooking because I only recall us using a stove to make candy), woodshop, metal shop, 2D fine art, and music; the last half-term you could choose one of those to go back to.

In 8th grade we could pick from art electives which included variants or advanced versions of all of those, but also included some new stuff: the woodshop teacher also taught silk screening, so I took several terms of that.

In my high school for me, too, things seemed to break down into more gendered lines in terms of what classes people chose to take, such classes being fully elective, but I seem to recall that the new stuff like drafting and photography had a mix of genders.

And cursive was taught in early-to-mid elementary school, and penmanship completely ignored after that.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

silk-screening would have been awesome! also photography -- but that was the purview of our yearbook club ...