[aimor]

I was looking through old (1900 - 1940) census records recently, they were all hand written then. Some people had beautifully legible writing, others chicken scratch, and occasionally I'd see something like what the average 30-something's handwriting looks like today.

When I was young there was talk about getting rid of cursive handwriting in school. We were still required to turn in writing assignments hand written in cursive in ink. The older generation would say it was a skill worth practicing, while kids would joke about all the lies lower grade teachers told us about higher grades ("in middle school if you don't write in cursive they won't accept your assignment"). Today they don't teach cursive.

I wish I had better handwriting and now I practice to improve it.