Wat? Y’all learned to read cursive in schools? Like your teacher just wrote words but in connected illegible italics and had you figure out what it meant? And yet y’all think we’re the weird ones.
I already could read books by then, but most kids didn't, so they learnt cursive first.
BTW cursive isn't any less or more readable than printed letters by itself. It depends on how fast you write. Printed letters force you to go slower, so by default you write them clearer. But if you go slow with cursive it will be as clear as printed letters.
I'm the same age as the students in the article, and I'm surprised that reading cursive is such an issue for them. Almost all of the letters closely resemble block letters except for R, S, Z and a few of the capitals. I mean, I don't use cursive at all in my daily life, but I still have no trouble reading things like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter.posted.in.189... using context clues.
I was in third grade in 1995 and was being taught cursive. I thought it was ridiculously old fashioned and a waste of time. I was punished for not doing copying assignments. I still think it was a waste of time nearly thirty years later.
