To ask you to help me with a little experiment?

[Namechangearoon]

Please could you write them quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' in your normal handwriting, take a picture and post it here with your age?

I don’t use it day to day. I was taught it, but found it difficult to hold the pen. However I do calligraphy on occasion and sometimes use it then.

In my humble opinion, so long as your son develops neat and legible writing, who cares if it's cursive or not? Honestly, has anyone anywhere needed this as a life skill (assuming they're not wanting to be calligraphers for example)?

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@BlackeyedSusan

children need to be able to write in cursive to "pass" their sats.

Sats are a measure of how well the school are doing.

as long as he is legible and reasonably quick he will be fine in the long run.

Is he particularly bendy and finding writing painful?

No he doesn't have dyspraxia.

I do wonder if he is getting labeled as having a 'problem with handwriting' when he just has a problem with being forced to do cursive.

We don't have sats where I am but it is interesting that kids would not pass their sats if they can't do cursive.

Also. So many people here have said they have messy handwriting when it looks perfectly lovely to me.
I wonder if you are the same people who apologise about the mess in your house because there's a cushion on the floor 😁

People tell me I have neat writing but I think it's awful.

My writing is objectively terrible (as shown above), I'm really not being falsely modest.
It's been likened to letting a freshly inked spider loose on a page.
On the plus side, I am very good at deciphering other people's handwriting, compared to mine it's very clear!