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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[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

While I took "Industrial Arts" instead of "Home Economics" in junior high school, this was unusual. For the most part, I was the only female who actually followed through and took the classes (a few of my fellow female classmates actually signed up for them initially but switched). And I was the only person in my metal shop class not to permitted to actually pour the melted aluminum into the molds. All the other male participants got to do it including a boy who was smaller than I was at the time. I think my presence actually made that teacher nervous. I already knew how to sew and cook when I signed up for the classes and decided I wanted to learn something that I didn't know. I did fairly well except in drafting. I couldn't keep from smearing the carbon from the pencils on my drawings.