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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[riverrocks.livejournal.com]

We moved a lot (three kindergartens, two first grades, two high schools and several moves in between), and since there wasn't an all of the above option I left the where I went to school question blank.

Gender impacted what skills I was taught, but not in the way we usually assume. With the gender I was assigned at birth (and attended school under), I wasn't supposed to get to take shop (metal working, woodworking, drafting) but two of my friends and I petitioned to change those rules under the reasoning that we wanted access to skills we couldn't/wouldn't learn at home. The principal relented (making it clear that he was only allowing it because we were all in the "gifted" class, and if we didn't all get A's no one else would get to "bend the rules" in the future) eventually, so Ellen and I took shop and Wayne took home economics (cooking and sewing).

I didn't take drivers ed in school. I wanted to take physics instead.

[riverrocks.livejournal.com]

oh, and the lettering we learned in drafting both shaped my hand writing for the rest of my life and ruined me for cursive.