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<blockquote data-quote="RSteve" data-source="post: 568655" data-attributes="member: 164"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">My elementary school education formally began in 1949, plus my mother was an elementary school teacher. Penmanship via the Palmer Method was mandatory. Poor cursive penmanship was enough to send a child to summer school or to be held back a grade. My left handed brother had a very difficult time during his early years. I, on the other hand, loved to practice my cursive penmanship and my handwriting was a good facsimile of the Palmer Method example cards posted over the blackboard. Once I got to high school, when it became necessary to quickly take notes, I and most of my classmates bailed on the Palmer Method for a combination of printing and pseudo-cursive; whatever could be written quickly and remain legible. Ballpoint pens supplanted our Estherbrook and Parker fountain pens. I'd be very surprised if either of my daughters, 43 and 35, have ever written with a fountain pen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">At university, "blue-book" written essay tests were often required to be legibly printed. I don't know if cursive is even taught in elementary schools anymore.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RSteve, post: 568655, member: 164"] [SIZE=5]My elementary school education formally began in 1949, plus my mother was an elementary school teacher. Penmanship via the Palmer Method was mandatory. Poor cursive penmanship was enough to send a child to summer school or to be held back a grade. My left handed brother had a very difficult time during his early years. I, on the other hand, loved to practice my cursive penmanship and my handwriting was a good facsimile of the Palmer Method example cards posted over the blackboard. Once I got to high school, when it became necessary to quickly take notes, I and most of my classmates bailed on the Palmer Method for a combination of printing and pseudo-cursive; whatever could be written quickly and remain legible. Ballpoint pens supplanted our Estherbrook and Parker fountain pens. I'd be very surprised if either of my daughters, 43 and 35, have ever written with a fountain pen. At university, "blue-book" written essay tests were often required to be legibly printed. I don't know if cursive is even taught in elementary schools anymore.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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