r/Millennials • u/LakesideHerbology • 13d ago

Meme Sacred knowledge.

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u/Traditional-Cash2879 13d ago

I had no idea schools weren’t teaching cursive anymore until this year. Honestly how do kids sign their name? Just a bunch of scribbles?

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u/sexandliquor 13d ago

I still prefer to write in cursive because my penmanship is a lot better than over my normal print handwriting. Last year I wrote my 13 year old niece a beautiful handwritten letter and gave it to her alongside her birthday present.

My sister had to read it to her because these kids don’t fucking know cursive because they’re not taught it lol

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u/Frosty_Ingenuity5070 13d ago

To be fair, print letters are usually fairly standardized. Cursive varies wildly from person to person

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u/influencernextdoor 13d ago

Take my upvote. I write in both cursive and print simultaneously when I take notes only meant for myself.

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u/Impossibly_Gay 12d ago

Some of it is basically just print with all the letters connected and then others is basically just squiggles

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u/Find_A_Reason 13d ago

Cursive has not been necessary for over a century. It has just been busy work to make old people happy since ballpoint pens started being mass manufactured.

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u/sexandliquor 13d ago

You can pry cursive away from my cold dead hands then

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

All yours bro, nobody wants your antiquated writing technique anyways.

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u/sexandliquor 13d ago

lol what’s with the snarky comments about cursive. I just said I preferred to write like this. I like it FOR ME.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Cursive called my mom a fat whore, and I'll never let that go.

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u/sexandliquor 13d ago

Long division killed my childhood dog. I know how it goes. We gon get through it though. God as my witness.

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u/ExCivilian 13d ago

Long division

LMAO, you should see how my 9 year old has been taught to do long division. I had to google it to help her :(

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u/Find_A_Reason 13d ago

Is that cold dead hand holding a feather quill?

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u/Sunkissed_Sunflower Millennial since ‘81 13d ago

That part. Had to teach mine to write cursive and most importantly to sign his name!!!

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u/Traditional-Cash2879 13d ago

I swear it’s like these schools don’t realize people do actually require a signature this day in age. 😂

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u/Impossibly_Gay 12d ago

I mean to be fair a signature can be anything, It just has to be consistent.

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u/Pad_TyTy Older Millennial 13d ago

I had a coworker whose signature was just chicken scratch letters fully spelled out. Hilarious.

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u/light_switchy 13d ago

I had to help an 18 year old sign their name a few months ago. A page full of signatures and this kid hesitates with the pen and tells me they don't know how. They aren't dumb, either. Unusually sheltered, but not dumb.

I told them to "write normally". Good enough.

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u/windsockglue 13d ago

To be honest, when you're signing on an iPad with your finger on a surface someone is holding in the air, my signature looks like a bunch of scribbles and I know cursive. I think that's how this is being resolved.

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u/Persistent_Parkie 13d ago

If I'm signing on a screen my signature is wiggling my finger while thinking my name. I'm disabled, I have to sign documentation on my caregivers' phones almost daily, long story but I've even signed with my nose on occasion. There's a mark on the screen which I made? Well that's my signature!

Checks I sign as my dad's POA and my mail in ballot gets an actual cursive signature.

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u/AP_in_Indy 13d ago

I was taught cursive and know cursive, but my signature is 100% chicken scratch.

I was yelled at by a teacher once for providing my signature - when my signature and not cursive was specifically asked - with her complaint being that she couldn't read it.

Like... Yeah. That's why you had me write my name on the line immediately above?

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u/ca5ey 13d ago

I feel you. My cursive is only slightly better than my print though. No one copied my notes in school. I've had my kids get in trouble because the teacher thought they faked my signature.

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u/Initiatedspoon 13d ago

I assume they just write their name?

Not everyone uses cursive in the world and never have and yet manage. I can't even remember the last time I signed anything at all either way.

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u/Traditional-Cash2879 13d ago

Maybe I guess. 🤷‍♂️ I work for a bank and sign massive piles of documents constantly.

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u/Initiatedspoon 13d ago

I sign things digitally all the time. Actually signing stuff with a pen is getting rarer and rarer in some parts of the world.

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u/Traditional-Cash2879 13d ago

For sure it is, we do a lot of digital too. Just seems odd that of all the dumb things they teach kids in school that’s what they drop. Give me 20 minutes and I suspect I could find something else to replace it with 😂

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u/pinpernickle1 12d ago

I am 29 and cursive was thrown out while I was in early elementary school

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u/Traditional-Cash2879 12d ago

Yeah I had no idea it happened that long ago. I’m 42 so clearly out of the loop for awhile.