My Grandma Cook could have answered this question

Sassy is in third grade this year.  Apparently this is the year they start learning cursive. I guess that’s when I learned it to, but really, all I remember about third grade and Mrs. McNally was spending a lot of time in the corner for talking and winning a school wide story competition.

I had read in several national news magazines that students weren’t being taught cursive or even penmanship anymore since everyone types or texts everything these days. I personally thought that was a bad idea primarily because I had to learn it, and it sucked but no more than learning fractions, and if they stop making kids learn fractions I’m totally going to have a fit.

So in homework this week, she needs to write the upper and lower case “B” in cursive. She asked me if I would write out all the letters, upper and lower case, so she would have something to work from.

“Sure,” I said taking the pen and paper.

A was no problem. Neither was B, C, or D. E caused me some difficulties. I had no idea how to make an uppercase F. G was much more difficult that I remembered. H and I were simple. J – what does an upper case J look like? I’m sure what I ended up with for the K was wrong. L, M, N, and O were easy. The P seemed too easy so I’m sure it was incorrect. Q? Is it supposed to look like a #2 or is that just for calligraphy? I erased the R three times. My S kept ending up looking like a treble clef. T, U, V, and W mostly looked all right. X, Y and Z – honestly, I have no idea.

When is the last time you tried to write the cursive letters exactly like you were taught in school? My handwriting, while perfectly legible, is an amalgamation of my own creating combining print and cursive and Sanskrit.  

Yeah, they better make them learn fractions. It’s only fair.