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

Re tristan:
> 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)??
Fourth year if you count Kindergarten.

> 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 :) )
We learned how to write, of course. I think I may be misinerpreting what
you're asking me, or you misread hwat I said. o_o; I knew how to write
before I got to kindergarten; they taught the alphabet. I don't remember
specifically learning to write; I think the two were either trelated or the
same thing. (It was a few years before I learned that you're not supposed to
write lowercase e by writing a c first and then the bar) We did printing
until third grade when we learned cursive, and we were pretty much forced to
write in cursive. The teachersa wlays said "when you get to high school,
they won't let you write in anything but pen and cursive!" Which is of
course a blatant lie. We were only allowed to write in pencil except on
final drafts of things until middle school, when we could use whatever we
wanted until we had to do the cursive-black-or-blue-ink final drafts.

-Kendra
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