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[Poll #1340512]

poll inspired by this article in the globe about the death of cursive writing. NB: back in 2006, 85% of kids taking the SAT wrote in block letters.

Comments

[unclebooboo.livejournal.com]

I flunked handwriting every single year in elementary school, and in the days before the ADA and section 501, having a cerebral palsy diagnosis from your doctor wasn't enough to get you out of this. Now a days they'd probably just give me a computer and let me type everything. As it was, I took typing in junior high and from then on typed all of my assignments.

This would have been kind of funny except that it one point they were about to hold me back a year (despite reading at the 12th grade level in 4th grade!) because of my bad penmanship.

Now, like most mathematicians I write with upper and low case block letters using a pencil. I can type LaTeX almost as fast as I can hand write mathematics, so that's what I use for anything that I give to my students.

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

In the fourth grade, my teacher strongly recommended that my parents get me a typewriter. They did.