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[Beauty54]

I work in the lunch room of an elementary school.  I recently learned that they no longer teach cursive writting.  I am apparently behind the times because I was told they stopped that a while ago.  I am shocked.  I had no idea that writting would become outdated.  My question is, how are they going to respond to things like signatures on important papers. I used to win awards on my handwritting when I was in elementary school.  Sad to see that it has become a dying art form.

[DiAnne]

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@ladyroxanne wrote:

sometimes my writing is good, sometimes not so.  it does depend on the pen too.

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@ladyroxanne

I am that way also.  I tried to do a few Christmas cards last night and my writing was terrible.  I will try again tonight.  

[Nannerbelles]

I enjoy writing cursive and my handwriting is still pretty good.  I don't write checks much anymore with debit cards and online bill pay but I do keep notes at work and enjoy writing out my Christmas cards.  I have rhumetoid arthiritis in my hands so it is getting more difficult but I won't stop.  I agree my children don't really write in cursive and my two baby granddaughters will probably never learn it.  I think that is a shame.

[ladyroxanne]

@DiAnne

i undrstand completely.  lol

[Peaches McPhee]

Interesting.  I write quite a bit at work (notes and reminders and messages), but if I did not work, I wonder how much writing I'd actually do.

[fortune]

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@Shanus wrote:

 I hardly ever "hand write" anything and use the computer for emails, letters and sometimes even sending birthday wishes. I started to write out my holiday cards yesterday and am shocked how difficult and unfortable it is to use a pen. You can barely read my writing on the first few cards. I don't write checks...either debit cards, charge or bills are drafted. When making a purchase, I just have to scribble something at the bottom of the ticket. Shameful!!! I think about my granddaughters. They may NEVER learn to write legibly. What a pity...a lost art. 

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@Shanus

Maybe we should all go back to the caveman days and just draw our messages on the nearest wall!

[Plaid Pants2]

You know what I treasure?

My late mom's hand written recipe cards, and love letters that my grandfather wrote to the young woman who would become his wife, my grandmother.

I have the journal that my mom kept when she was pregnant with me.

I have my mother's babybook.

All irreplaceable pieces of family history, and the handwriting is a little piece of them that I still have with me, even though they all have been gone for a long time.

[maestra]

I have very pretty handwriting thanks to Sisters of Charity almost 60 years ago.

My hairdresser submitted a check I had written to her and the bank teller told her it was the most beautifully written check she had cashed; I admit I wrote it w/a fountain pen. Fountain pens were all we were permitted to use in the schools I attended.

Fountain pens were a terrible mess; we always had blue or black ink all over our hands; we had to also use blotter paper.

I am hoping this winter to begin to teach myself calligraphy.

[daisey10]

I still write and still have a good hand writing. I was taught by the nuns. I have a hard time printing.

[Shanus]

@fortune Don't think I'd like writing on cave walls, but think I'll make a point of handwriting something often so it may improve.