That's weird considering that I'm over a decade older than you and was allowed to turn in typed papers (this rule predated microcomputers; it was for typewriters).
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Just remembered that it was the other way around for my dad. Only cursive was taught in primary school, but in college, he had a drafting course where he learned print, so his print is incredibly legible.
Also, I love cursive. I had terrible fine motor skills when I learned print, but had developed by 3rd grade, so my print is illegible, but cursive is fine.
> That's weird considering that I'm over a decade older than you and was allowed to turn in typed papers
I had the same experience as the GP commenter. Early elementary teachers were insistent that cursive would be the future of your handwriting. As soon as I hit 5th grade, teachers either didn't care or explicitly asked for typed.
I'm a decade older than the original commenter, and teachers started asking for homework papers to be typed even earlier for me. I did the first year or two of those on my dad's old mechanical typewriter lol. When I was in middle school it was really common for students to have a word processor that was hardware, not an application on their PC. These were basically a printer with a keyboard and like a 3 line LED display.
Anyhow, the last time I can recall using cursive as a requirement was in my IB exams, and it felt like a pointless anachronism there.
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Just remembered that it was the other way around for my dad. Only cursive was taught in primary school, but in college, he had a drafting course where he learned print, so his print is incredibly legible.
Also, I love cursive. I had terrible fine motor skills when I learned print, but had developed by 3rd grade, so my print is illegible, but cursive is fine.