Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

kendra wrote:

>Speaking as a fairly young person (18,) handwriting was hardly taught when I
>was young. We learned cursive in third grade and had to mime perfectly these
>endless sheets of letters, adn that was that.
>
*Third grade*? That's what, grade three, grade two equivalent (the
fourth or third year of primary school)?? What did you do for the
threeish years before then? (We learnt how to write in grade prep (first
year), learnt cursive in grade three (fourth year), and got (ballpoint)
pen licences in grade four (fifth year). We only had to do cursive while
we were learning it, and even then it was an optional extra: they were
happy enough if we did loops on our ascenders/descenders. Of course, it
was also a sign of being better than people who didn't do it, so most
people wanted to :) )

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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