John Cowan wrote:

>
> Tex Texin scripsit:
>
> > Where is the "official" reference for US script writing? I thought american
> > schools varied in what they taught for script.
>
> Probably so: they vary about everything else. I have to keep explaining
> to people from other countries that people making claims about
> "American schools" *by definition* don't know what they are talking about,
> because no stats are kept and there are ~ 10K different school districts.
> And now I fall into the same trap myself, of assuming my own experience
> is universal or even typical.

We could say that through the 1950s at least, "Palmer method" was the
handwriting most usually taught. But I don't know what OP meant by
saying that this or that handwriting is "based on" typefaces. That's
backward.

These days, I wonder whether handwriting is taught at all --
block-printed capitals seems to be the rule.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...