Do you ever write in cursive

[MoonFaerie]

All the time! It's so much quicker than printing, and when I'm taking notes in class, quick is important.

 

[V1RAL]

Back in 4th grade I wrote a combination of regular and cursive. My teacher would always tell me to make up my mind on style.

 

[suzimar57]

haven't written in cursive since the mid 70s - print everything (except my signature)

can still remember those cursive writing lessons in grammar school...

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

Only my signature.
Honestly, I learned cursive in 4th and 5th grade and I never could do it correctly, I still can't.
My signature is terrible.

 

[MM27]

Yes, but at home it's mostly a combination of cursive and print.

At work I print or write in proper cursive, depending on the grade I'm working with. I am a teacher.

This is me too. I do my own form of a cursive/print combo whenever I write. I have to be careful at school though, and if I do accidentally write letters in that style, I have to tell the kids that it is not the proper way to make a (whatever letter I just made). We don't teach handwriting though and kids are not required to write in cursive.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

All the time. I have to take a lot of notes of telephone conversations and cursive is faster and more natural to me.

 

[aprilgail2]

My handwriting is a cursive-print hybrid. Apparently, the lower grades in my school district no longer teacher cursive, so when I write on the board, sometimes my 7th graders don't know what it says! When I'm writing by hand for any length of time, my handwriting is much more "cursivey" than print.

My daughter is in 6th grade and has never been taught cursive-everything is printed or done on the computer. They dont use cursive at all in school.

 

[travelbug]

Sure, I write in cursive all the time.

 

[fireflymedic]

I only sign my name, I barley remember how, I always print

thats what i did. One day it downed on me I did not know most of the letters so I started using cursiv on checks when you right the amount. it has a added benafitt of covering up my bad spelling but now I mostly use ATM card instead of checks so I'm about back were I was

 

[MushyMushy]

Cursive is too slow and ends up sloppy because of trying to hurry. I print in all capital letters, first letter that should be capitalized being larger. All capital letters when writing is easier to read than normal printing or cursive in my opinion.

I can't see how cursive is faster when writing than printing unless your cursive is chicken scratch. All the swoops and swirls add a lot to the actual work you are doing to write.

If you're just doing a basic cursive, then the letters all flow together so it is faster when you're writing. With printing, you have to lift your pen from the paper for every letter, so to me that takes a lot longer.

 

[zippitydoo]

Hardly ever. I only really just sign my name

 

[Princess_Meghan <3]

I really only sign my name in cursive.

My print sometimes all flows together if I'm writing quickly, and it can resemble cursive at times. I honestly don't really remember how to write in cursive, though. It was hammered into me in elementary and middle school, but in high school, we were told we needed to write in print.

 

[7165red]

Cursive, the nuns taught me well, in fact I don't remember printing. I was important as to how we held the pen. I see younger people holding their pens like it is a tool and they really grip hold of it.

 

[cm8]

Yes, all the time at work and when I make my list for trips

 

[Freyja]

Always

 

[C.Ann]

Sorry, duplicate post..

 

[C.Ann]

At least 90% of the time - if not more.. I've always enjoyed writing in cursive..

 

[cinabug]

I write in cursive, but often with some printing thrown in. I'm a teacher, and I pretty much print when writing on the board. When I was first teaching, cursive was still in the state learning standards, so I required a minimal amount of cursive on my weekly vocabulary worksheets. I got some very negative reactions to the requirement from a few parents. A couple of years later, the standards were updated with no mention of cursive.

I will say that I used cursive extensively for note taking in college. It was a valuable skill since I absorbed a lot of information by transcribing it. I imagine the same thing would work with typing, but do kids really type notes as professors speak? Recording a lecture would not work as well for most students, since few are auditory learners. I guess I would have to vote for keeping the skill alive.

 

[Rora]

I rarely write in cursive. I sign my name and wrote a few notes in college using cursive (time crunch lectures) but that's it!

 

[cybrkitn]

Everyday. Although I type faster than I write in script or print.