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by electrons_Archive
I used to write in print in all caps, from like sophomore year on. I never was requested to write in cursive at all in HS or college. I completely forgot everything I learned about writing in cursive. Then, about 8 years ago, I got a job teaching 3rd grade. This happens to be the year you introduce cursive into the curriculum. I remember trying to write the uppercase and lowercase letters on the chalkboard so the kids could copy it on their recycled blue and red striped handwriting paper that the school provided. It was miserable. I would be in front of 30 children, who honestly think that I have the answer to everything imaginable, and I had to look up how to write certain letters correctly in some text book. 70% of my class wrote better than me. I guess that made me a good teacher.
Anyhow, the whole reason that I even post here was to say that - even with that text book - I can't make an uppercase cursive Q. Can't do it. I remembered that it looked suspiciously like a 2. But just trying to make it from memory was more than futile. Then, studying the text, I attempt the same. Results were equally poor. I had to have Ned, the class genius, come up and make it for me on the board. Children were shocked. Children were confused. Children aged that day, sitting in disbelief that the energetic young teacher with the wistful ponytail and the gleam of hope in his eye for each one of them could not master and model something as easy as, *cough*, handwriting. The letter Q changed my relationship with my students. They looked at me differently. They listened differently, less frequently and less obediently. The letter Q caused legitimate classroom management issues in my classroom!
Fuck you, uppercase cursive letter Q. Fuck you.
Ryan Kevin Rezvani (:u)~
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