Growing up in US public schools cursive was mandatory in ~5th grade in my district. Then shortly after (6th grade? 7th?) it became optional and the vast majority of my peers quit writing it
I persisted because I actually preferred it, only to be actively encouraged by teachers collecting longer written assignments to write _normally_ on account of my cursive being harder to read
It didn't end up mattering - computers and printed assignments were rapidly becoming the norm. I always thought teaching cursive was a strange choice
It may be worth noting that the legibility of my penmanship is generally poor. I wonder if perhaps emphasizing legibility has similar positive effects on developing brains...
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Certainly my cursive is harder to read.
Growing up in US public schools cursive was mandatory in ~5th grade in my district. Then shortly after (6th grade? 7th?) it became optional and the vast majority of my peers quit writing it
I persisted because I actually preferred it, only to be actively encouraged by teachers collecting longer written assignments to write _normally_ on account of my cursive being harder to read
It didn't end up mattering - computers and printed assignments were rapidly becoming the norm. I always thought teaching cursive was a strange choice
It may be worth noting that the legibility of my penmanship is generally poor. I wonder if perhaps emphasizing legibility has similar positive effects on developing brains...