I had never even heard the term, "cursive" until much later in life. What I learned was called, "writing" or "handwriting."
The funny thing is that I grew up, like most people here, in the pre-computer era and I first learned to print, then I learned to write and finally, I learned to print for real when I took drafting and engineering classes. You see...in the pre-computer era all of my drafting and engineering work had to be hand lettered and a big part of the grade was on making the lettering look so good that you couldn't tell if it was machine printed or hand printed. One of my engineering professors authored the freshman graphics text and every single illustration in the book was done by him, by hand. And it was amazing how good it was. The prof would hear bitching all the time about how hard it was to print well and how no one could do what he was demanding and then he would point to the text book...
