I was in elementary school during the first three years of the Iraq War (2003-2005) and I remember the teachers would make us write letters to our troops overseas. We had to thank them for their service and write encouraging messages.

Did any one else do this?

Yep I do, I didn't realize I was writing to Iraq soldiers back then.

Personally no. But I do remember my Kindergarten teacher having us draw American Flags post 9/11. This was to honor the first responders that died during the attacks.

I remember when writing traditional letters was still a huge thing back in elementary school. My 3rd and 4th grade teachers taught us the old fashion way to write formal letters and those were pretty good skills. Once we got to high school teachers no longer taught us how to write letters, they expected us to know that and by that point we were used to sending each other e-mails including e-mails through our bosses at our jobs. Throughout the end of my senior year my dad forced me to write thank you letters to my teachers (and former ones) and family members for graduation and that eventually benefited me for scholarships too. I'm not sure if kids in elementary school today are still learning how to write traditional letters but it's definitely declined since e-mails have become the norm now.

Technolgy has come so far in a short amount of time. I remember writing a letter used to be torture for me since I have a writing disability. Thankfully I had an AlphaSmart in 5th grade (which is a computer typewriter hybrid) where you type and print stuff out. I used it from grades 5-12 but once I graduated High School that's when they discontinued it.

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I remember when writing traditional letters was still a huge thing back in elementary school. My 3rd and 4th grade teachers taught us the old fashion way to write formal letters and those were pretty good skills. Once we got to high school teachers no longer taught us how to write letters, they expected us to know that and by that point we were used to sending each other e-mails including e-mails through our bosses at our jobs. Throughout the end of my senior year my dad forced me to write thank you letters to my teachers (and former ones) and family members for graduation and that eventually benefited me for scholarships too. I'm not sure if kids in elementary school today are still learning how to write traditional letters but it's definitely declined since e-mails have become the norm now.


That and learning cursive. I remember learning how to write cursive in 3rd Grade. However, most people don’t even use cursive, unless for writing their own signatures. However, even that is becoming a lost skill as I remembers for my financial literacy class my Senior year that our teacher had us practice writing our signature for checks and the Freshman in the class genuinely didn’t know how to write their own signature.

It makes sense, why learn cursive in our day and age? Most of our communication is done through a screen nowadays.

Nope.

Nope but i remember the first time i heard about 9/11 i think it was in the first grade i thought it was an accident.

That and learning cursive. I remember learning how to write cursive in 3rd Grade. However, most people don’t even use cursive, unless for writing their own signatures. However, even that is becoming a lost skill as I remembers for my financial literacy class my Senior year that our teacher had us practice writing our signature for checks and the Freshman in the class genuinely didn’t know how to write their own signature.

It makes sense, why learn cursive in our day and age? Most of our communication is done through a screen nowadays.


We learned cursive in 3rd grade too, and my 4th grade teacher was pretty mean (did not tolerate foolishness at all) and with some of our papers or tests she required us to write the FULL essay in cursive.

That and learning cursive. I remember learning how to write cursive in 3rd Grade. However, most people don’t even use cursive, unless for writing their own signatures. However, even that is becoming a lost skill as I remembers for my financial literacy class my Senior year that our teacher had us practice writing our signature for checks and the Freshman in the class genuinely didn’t know how to write their own signature.

It makes sense, why learn cursive in our day and age? Most of our communication is done through a screen nowadays.

I had a friend who wrote in cursive all the time on his work.

It makes sense, why learn cursive in our day and age? Most of our communication is done through a screen nowadays.


You know how Kindergarten classrooms had posters up on the wall on ABC's, 123's, days of the week, basic photos of objects, shapes, etc. Well our 3rd grade class had a poster of all the letters in cursive similar to this but it was long and went all around the classroom, and we learned 1 letter in cursive per week uppercase and lowercase, so that was about 26 weeks worth of cursive the whole school year.

https://i.imgur.com/W4IDQ2c.jpg

You know how Kindergarten classrooms had posters up on the wall on ABC's, 123's, days of the week, basic photos of objects, shapes, etc. Well our 3rd grade class had a poster of all the letters in cursive similar to this but it was long and went all around the classroom, and we learned 1 letter in cursive per week uppercase and lowercase, so that was about 26 weeks worth of cursive the whole school year.

https://i.imgur.com/W4IDQ2c.jpg

We learned cursive in 3rd grade too, and my 4th grade teacher was pretty mean (did not tolerate foolishness at all) and with some of our papers or tests she required us to write the FULL essay in cursive.


Damn that's hardcore! Our teacher taught us how to write in cursive, but only simple sentences and learning how to write our own signature. Nothing too crazy.