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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[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

To explain #3:

From Pre-K to Grade Five, I was in a Brooklyn, NY Public School. From Grades Six to Twelve, I was in a tiny school that combined junior high and high school, in Sag Harbor, which was a village in the town of Southampton, which was a section of the Hamptons, which I'm calling rural because I don't know if I can call it suburban. New York City was two hours away.

There was so rarely any gender divide in any of my classes that I assumed it was normal for boys and girls to take the same classes (home ec, shop) and I remember getting extremely confused and annoyed when people from other schools would tell me that "boys couldn't take home ec and girls couldn't take shop" in their schools.