The only cursive anyone needs to know is their names, for signing checks made out to me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No! I want those checks!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nope! I got dibs!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think I'm the only person who still writes in cursive. But you learn how to type in either middle school/high school, you don't really need it 'til then.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

but learning cursive isn't useful ever. At least they'll actually be learning something useful by speedtyping.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We learned to type in elementary school. Once a week we would go to the computer lab and we would have to do a lesson on Type2Learn Jr. We had an optional computer class in middle school, but most sixth graders took it since they couldn't actually choose their classes. They also had Type2Learn and I think you had to finish it by the end of the semester. I don't think that actually contributed too much to how fast I type though, since I was on the computer most of the time anyways.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hate how in my high school, the computer classes are about typing. It's like, we're in high school. If we don't know how to type by now, we would have flunked out.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My high school has a keyboarding class where all you do is type. That's just fucking stupid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

To make matters worse, all of the basic classes are requisites for the cool classes like web design and computer graphics. I really wanted to take web design, but it's not worth taking my 7th class about typing and how to work power point.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was taught both skills in school, and now I don't use either.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You don't type up your essays?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I do type my essays, but I don't use the quick-typing-all-fingers technique I was taught in school.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In elementery school we did this typing program, Mavis Beacon, or something. I was too young to care, and there was not enough emphasis. in middle school it was from this old fashioned book, and we were tested on it. I learned in a semester. Now I can type completely without looking, and it is a great skill. I only write in bad cursive when I'm being lazy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think that writing in cursive isn't really that necessary except for signing your name. But reading cursive is a skill that I think more people should have.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My school was a bitch about learning how to type. They actually graded us on our posture and ability to use the home row keys and pressing each individual key with a certain finger, etc. Then on the "typing exam" we had to put a towel over our hands and each time we looked under, we got like 5 points deducted. It was a crazy bitch. Plus we had to memorize where things like !@#$%^&*() those were, while having the towel over our hands. BRUTAL

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha, my computer teacher in elementary school made us put towels over our hands too. I don't remember her grading us that harshly but I remember having really sweaty hands.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In middle school we had a typing segment in our career class but the teacher never even watched us, so we all just typed with two fingers. To this day, I can't type properly.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Same thing with my school and most schools in my county. Most people in my high school have no computer skills.

by Anonymous 12 years ago