• Jo Miran
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    I am American but I spent my childhood in the Caribbean. My mom wanted to make sure I had a good education so she enrolled me in a private school started and run by a posh British couple to educate the children of the expats stationed there back when agricultural exports were big business (1950’s??). I think they taught us they way they were taught as children in their preppy schools at the turn of the century.

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      what do you think about learning cursive and how people don’t use it anymore?

      I still love it, I also taught myself calligraphy and bust out a fountain pen when someone asks me to sign a birthday or farewell card :)

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        Honestly, I don’t think about it much since to me writing cursive is “just how it is”, but I do wonder why they stopped teaching it. It is so much faster for note-taking.

        In my high-school’s defense, they did teach us touch typing, which has come in far more handy than cursive.