“which we used to call HANDWRITING”
That’s exactly what it was called when I was learning it (back in the covered wagon days, evidently). I never even heard the word CURSIVE until my own children were in school. How times have changed.
“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.