I went thru Catholic school K-12. Learned cursive and still use it as my primary style of writing. Both kids went to private K-8 and then Catholic HS. Both not only CAN write in cursive, but actually prefer it to printing. Now…anyone fluent in shorthand?
Hotcanary, my sister found some old letters when going through my grandfather’s things. There were 8 children in his family, 6 boys and 2 girls. All had the same Palmer penmanship. The letters from the older boys sent home in 1917 from the war (all the way from New Jersey!) all were identical in the writing style.
My mother’s aunt was the assistant town clerk and then the town clerk in their small town. When the 1910 and 1920 censuses were released, she looked at them and said “Oh, that’s Mr. Potter’s writing” He was the town clerk when she was assistant and then she took over.
I’m sad writing in cursive is practically non-existent.
In my grunt days as an associate, I had to do my share of corporate due diligence. For an old steel company a client was dismantling and selling in pieces in a transaction, I had to go through corporate records from its inception. It was amazing (and sad) to see stock ledgers, stock certificates, board minutes and all manner of records that were carefully and beautifully handwritten all being rendered worthless, and representative of the industry being dismantled and the jobs being eliminated.