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Originally Posted by Larryp
Cursive writing was an important part of my early primary schooling-anyone remember slope cards?
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Up to 2nd class we always used printed characters but in 2nd class we were introduced to "running writing" This was a great morale booster because you were considered ready for advancement when you could do this.
We got a new head master when I went into 4th class and he introduced slope cards. Up to that time my writing was attrocious and I could get about 10 words on a line. When we got slope cards I could only get about 7 words on a line and my writing was still attrocious. Writing was worth quite a few marks in the exam. I seldem got more than 65%. I needed excellent scores in other subjects to remain at the top of the class.
Incidently my writing has got progressively worse since then so that even I can't read it. These days I am reduced to printed characters when manually puting "pen to paper"
Barry