https://xkcd.com/2912

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𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.

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    8 months ago

    You guys were forced to actually use it? Outside of when I was taught it, no one demanded it. In fact, most teachers I had discouraged it, or hand written at all. They wanted everything typed in 12 point Times New Roman. Double spaced. Indented. With footers and headers.

    I’m 39.

    • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      38 months ago

      You’re just below the curve of home computers becoming ubiquitous. I’m 43, and through most of middle school papers had to be handwritten in cursive.

      At home my computer was from Radio Shack, hooked to a TV, and had a Daisy Wheel printer - fonts were hardware. I got my first IBM PC in 8th grade, with a 20mb hard drive & dual 5 1/4" floppies.

    • @SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      28 months ago

      In my school, we were taught to/made to write in cursive since like 4. And then everyone complained that my handwriting was illegible chicken scratch and yelled at me to write more legibly.

      Then I switched to non-cursive (whatever you call writing the same shape as the text in the page here?) and immediately my text became legible. Then everyone switched to complaining that I write too slow.

      I just can’t win.

      • FfaerieOxide
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        18 months ago

        non-cursive (whatever you call writing the same shape as the text in the page here?)

        Printing?

    • @viking@infosec.pub
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      28 months ago

      I’m 39 as well, and up until 10th grade it was mandatory, only afterwards it was left to us to choose. And that’s across all subjects.

      We were not allowed to use computers to prepare papers in high school until grade 12 I think.

      • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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        18 months ago

        I’m older than that and I can’t believe your teachers actually wanted to try decipher shitty kid writing. After like 6th grade for me everyone pretty much turned up their noses at anything that wasn’t typed, and as a teacher now I can say I hate when my students try to hand in something handwritten.

        Even before computers I think at least at the college level using typewriters was pretty common. When I was a kid I found a stash of college papers from my folks and a lot of it was done on a typewriter.

        • @viking@infosec.pub
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          28 months ago

          They didn’t want to decipher it, if our handwriting was bad, we got points deducted or could ultimately fail.

          My handwriting is still shit though.

    • Echo Dot
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      8 months ago

      I have a thing with my wrist where I don’t have great fine motor control and my handwriting is adversely affected. I once handed in a whole essay and my teacher couldn’t read any of it. I also couldn’t remember what I had written so I essentially had to make it up on the spot again.

      After that no one wanted me to write in cursive anymore. But my handwriting was still pretty bad given the whole wrist thing so they decided that I had dyslexia (I didn’t but that’s apparently an easier excuse than my wrist doesn’t work) so I had to scribe. Finally they admitted that maybe a laptop would be a better idea. The whole thing took them about 5 or 6 years to get through though. With them demanding cursive for at least the first two years.

      I don’t think I’ve written anything down at all beyond maybe “happy birthday” in about 25 years.