I was raised in North Mississippi and "Real Writin'" (3rd grade?) is what you learned after "Printin'".............You should have taken notes in Hebrew. They only write the consonants and the vowels are left to the reader to mentally insert............
My husband should have learned Hebrew -- he's a hook-handed lefty and dyslexic. Plus, he looks like a Rabbi. (Not sure why - he's Irish mostly with some German and southern redneck thrown in. But every time we're at a synagogue for somebody's bar mitzvah or funeral or whatever, SOMEbody asks him "Where do you usually attend shul?")
How weird.....