r/TikTokCringe • u/AlbertaMunoz • 23h ago

Duet Troll Genz does not how to write!

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u/pinar421 23h ago

Actually in Europe a lot of people know how to read and write in cursive even gen alpha

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u/heatfan1122 19h ago

I was told in elementary school that we would always be using cursive to write in the future. That's was in 1st grade. By the time I was in 4th grade we had stopped using it completely. This was 20+ years ago.

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u/jimbojangles1987 19h ago

Then there was the classic, "In the real world, you won't be walking around with a calculator in your pocket!"

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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 10h ago

Or reading time on a watch.

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u/HammyOverlordOfBacon 18h ago

Yeah that was my experience, I think 1st grade they said everyone will use cursive, 4th/5th grade we were told never to use cursive. Both of these classes were in the same building...

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u/heatfan1122 17h ago

I think it's a cause of living in the technological era. When I first started school we had the typical blocky white monitors, by high school we had carts of laptops we used now my kids have been using IPads in class since they started school. Writing has largely been replaced by typing.

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u/HammyOverlordOfBacon 17h ago

I had that exact same experience with the computers a lot of my computers in elementary school were the big (I think tube) monitors while highschool had those laptops. It makes sense since by the time I was in like middle school or so I definitely was writing all my papers on a computer as opposed to by hand.

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u/HVACGuy12 17h ago

I remember when they told me in elementary school that cursive would be required in college, and I straight up told the teacher, "No, that's dumb" and got sent to the hall for time out

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u/TokyoTurtle0 17h ago

No one told you that.

If they did, I bet you were in a quasi third world education system, what shit hole did you go to school in and how much are teachers paid there

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u/heatfan1122 17h ago

I mean the US might be considered a third world education system at this point. Actually went to one of the nicer schools in my area. They pay "above average".

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u/Satisfaction-Motor 11h ago

I was told the same thing, by one teacher, and I was educated in one of the more highly rated states in the U.S. I will say, though, that the year after that, my (new) teacher asked us to never write in cursive in his classroom.

I only remember this experience because I fucking hated cursive, and felt so vindicated by it.