Wooooh! I never thought about anything like "pen license". Was it a government launched idea or it was specific to your school. And what if a person never reaches to the standard?  Would he ever be allowed to write with pen?

It's astonishing for me to hear a story where a readable writing was not accepted only because it did not meet certain standard. Isn't that a non-sense?  Is there a need to craft letters with particular strokes to regard the writing as acceptable. I think readability is the only requirement the writing requires, and yes neatness too.

I am wondering what happened to you afterwards. Did she fail you in a exam for handwriting, that was not meant to guage handwriting?

Seriously,  I never expected education system to be that stupid.

My first writing-reading was in Braille, as I was in my first years of primary school in a school for the visually impaired. After the surgeries, I learned to read, it was difficult for me to shape my cursive handwriting, as learning the strokes at the age of 9 is different than for a child of 6. With practice and the use of a method known as Palmer Calligraphy, I managed at around the age of 14 to have a decent handwriting, which helped me a lot when I was writing on the acrylic board when I was a teacher.

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I understood from what I could read that this was, first of all, a tribute to your mother, who:

>My mother wasn't supportive in many ways, but she always had my back when authority tried to force me to conform to imaginary standards.

Of course, the topic was different, and I think I understood what you were saying about the force wanting to impose one rule for all and trying to inhibit everyone's specific personality. You were a rebel and opposed the regulations that led to standardization... I understand that you have a good memory, which helps you recall things from your childhood.

However, the effect on me was to remind me of my mother, who, like your mother, took care of me and encouraged me to read, learn, and write beautifully, as was said at that time. That is, to write the way she wrote, somehow archaic and much more pleasant than the writing imposed by school.

Thank you! 

That is pretty funny.  I was always getting in trouble in school, so my parents were a little less forgiving with me.  It was usually my fault and they knew it.  That pretty much went away once I got past 6th grade or so.  The only time they had to come in after that they totally took my side against a teacher.

That is cool your mom had your back. Mine did as well, as long as I was on the right path. Otherwise she would side with the teacher. 

They don't eveen teach cursive in most schools around here anymore. I5 is all print or typed. I am not sure how I feel about it. My youngest son can't even read cursive writing. I find this a little sad I guess.  

What a crazy idea with the bubble letters. They were still teaching cursive in the States when I was in school so I learned it. It wasn't the old flowing style, but was one of those hybrid systems that aimed to keep some of the old elegance while making it easier to learn (so that schools didn't have to spend as much time on the subject, I imagine). I think it was the Palmer method. My writing was always terrible, so I switched to print only as soon as I was able. Oddly, when I started using fountain pens, I naturally switched back to cursive since it is easier to write that way with a fountain pen, and now my writing is pretty good. 

Anyway, that's cool that your mom had your back on that one. Generally I try to be supportive of teachers, but a teacher digging in her heels like that in support of a dumb policy needs to be stood up to. 

Good job, mother! My own mother entered school already writing cursive, thanks to her older brother. The teacher wanted to make her print. 

As for me, my cursive degraded as I tried to keep up with notetaking in engineering school. My husband and I print when doing technical communications, although our courtship correspondence from around 1980 is in cursive. 

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Sometimes even I have troubles reading what I wrote. I think I mentioned this but years ago I tried to write books. A detective, a continuation of lord of the rings and my favorite a fantasy story of [my own.](https://hive.blog/writing/@fieryfootprints/mourn-of-the-sword-chapter-1-fateful-meeting-repost). I did not finish any of them. And writing by hand, then typing to pc and then translating it to english was pain in the ass. Still I enjoyed it. But now I am glad that I have already posted it on Hive- now I have a hard time understanding what I wrote.😛

There's always a smart ass with exceptional writing, just wasn't ever me. 

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> My mother wasn't supportive in many ways, but she always had my back when authority tried to force me to conform to imaginary standards.

Dear @tarazkp !
I remember you saying that your parents immigrated to Australia from India!
I guessed that your family had conflicts with your Australian female teacher because they had characteristics of an Indian family culture!

I assumed you left Australia because you had personal characteristics as an Indian!

By the way, I wonder if the Australian teacher failed you for a semester!?