Are you sure they were nuts for Cursive Writing? Maybe they thought you said Cursing Writing... 😀
Heheheh... no. I mean, they did the cursing writing too, but...
I had one baby (who’s sadly in jail for murdering a man who I’m certain was molesting him, long story) who was so focused on learning cursive he’d get angry when his handwriting wasn’t perfect. I praised every attempt he did, and he was so down on himself because he wasn’t getting it perfect immediately.
My kids were really desperate to learn “the cursives” because they KNEW that knowledge was being held from them.