Re:Backtrack-Free Cursive
by tsunagatta on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:57PM
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Interestingly I had the opposite journey, I am a Young so they didn't bother to teach me cursive in school, so in high school when I got into fountain pens I taught myself italic hand so that my handwriting would be more legible and easier to write with it -- but just recently I got tired of the two-stroke 'e' and taught myself Zaner-Bloser instead, lol. I do definitely see the drawbacks you mentioned though, after I started getting more casual with my writing I noticed 'l's and 'e's becoming quickly indistinguishable
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Illinois still requires cursive as part of their elementary education curriculum (although it’s an outlier in that it also requires PE in every year of K-12 education and also for public university degrees¹ (maybe also private?) as well as speech in both high school and again for a public university degree.
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1. Typically this would only apply or a bachelor’s and maybe associate’s degree, but when I got my teaching credential/MS, because I had an out of state private college BA, I had to take undergraduate courses for state requirements including US Government, Biology, Speech and 2 PE classes. An ancient AP test score spared me having to take US History.
Wait, PE is not mandatory in US schools?!? This is ridiculous.
Re:Backtrack-Free Cursive
by animal_spirits on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:52PM
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Illinois has a daily PE mandate, where other states it’s usually 3 days per week of PE
In California at the high school level, I think it’s only 1 or 2 years of PE.
A Young?
Re:Backtrack-Free Cursive
by qingcharles on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:19PM
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A youngling, one of the Young Ones (but not Mike).