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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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[sanacrow.livejournal.com]

40-mumble, several schools from rural to suburban.

Learned print before school, learned cursive some on my own, some in 2nd and 3rd grades - all work was required to be in 'longhand' until somewhere mid-high-school. My 'everyday' handwriting now is mostly script with a few print letters scrambled in (and not always the same letters consistently).

I use the keyboard or voice-to-text for a lot now due to medical/dexterity issues, but strongly prefer to sit down with fresh paper and a Japanese pen to outline projects, draft writing or simply take notes. I *think* differently sitting at the table with a pen and a cuppa than I do at a keyboard. (I've tried bringing the laptop to the table, but the voice stuff just *so* isn't the same as the feel of a pen and good paper.)

I took typing in junior and high school (on big manual typewriters with the "zip-clunk" manual returns). I took cooking in 9th, although I had already learned to cook at home. Girls were not allowed to take Shop. And our high school didn't offer driver's ed at the time.