Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA, June 13th, 2003
TO THE EDITOR:
As a product of elementary school in the late 1930s, I recall specifically that we were taught cursive very early, probably in first grade. I don't remember being taught how to print at all, and later on I taught myself when I felt the need of it for certain uses.
In 10th grade, when our biology teacher required us to make special "plates" of biological and zoological drawings using a crowquill pen and India ink, we had to print the information on them, and many people had never printed at all. It was a struggle for them.
On the contrary, when my own children started school i...
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