I don't exactly have pleasant memories when it comes to cursive writing. My Primary school teachers often made me stay behind in class to practice cursive letters. We used to have these big booklets where we would copy certain phrases or letters joint together.
They would go over all these rules, that we were supposed to memorise, such as "make a swish at the top of an O, except if it joins a U", or something among those lines.
Personally, well, I never really got the hang of it, and they would get frustrated at me. In the end my parents requested that they just let me write in print because I kept getting in trouble for "not writing correctly".
Sometimes I would forget all the flicks and twirls on each letter, so I would write in print and then go over my work and try to add the details in that I missed out. However, it didn't really work because it was still obvious that I hadn't just added them in the first place.
It took plenty of arguing, but eventually the teachers agreed to let me write in print without getting into trouble. This greatly sped up my writing speed, since I no longer had to worry about accidentally using an up swish mark when I meant a down swish mark, or missing the swish on the O's.
My Primary school had a very particular style of writing, so much so that when I started Secondary school my English teacher saw my writing and knew immediately which Primary I went to, and pointed out how he could tell.
Although I write in print, there are still a few letters that I write using cursive.
My lowercase g's and f's remain in cursive, but the rest of my letters are in print. I think this is because they drilled the importance of cursive g's and f's into us the most, so that part still remains.
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