“I never even heard the word CURSIVE until my own children were in school.”
Nor did I. It was called Penmanship (or most likely Penpersonship today). We always had cards on the wall above the blackboards that showed all the letters in both upper and lower case. Didn’t help me much. I still have crummy handwriting. I have pretty darn good printing though, which was very helpful in doing blueprint work.
I got an A in penmanship in 7th grade 1959. When I went to HS we had priests instead of nuns. We couldn’t read their writing and they could read moors enough to hit us if we didn’t get it right. In college we had essay blue book tests and i had to pay attention.
I’ve been pushing a mouse since Mac+ and typing without any typing lessons, as you can tell if you read some of my posts.
Before I die, I will be dictating instead of typing. And people will ask if I was around when people wrote things by hand.