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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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I'm in the 40-49 age range and I checked most of those boxes, but "up to age 17/18" isn't accurate: Handwriting lessons stopped after the fifth grade, home ec and shop (cooking, sewing, woodwork) took up a couple of years in junior high and I took a semester of typing in high school. There was also a "computer room" with some first-generation Macs and they might have offered some rudimentary computer classes, but I never took any.