Peter Rolf Klaus Wagner

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I find that the schools are not teaching good penmanship anymore. They are letting kids “do their own thing”. But what results is unintelligible chicken scratch.

One of the things I love to do is read early family letters which were written in a script that would seem incomprehensible to most people now.
I learned to write cursive way before first grade but it wasn’t the correct method, the American Standard.

Here’s an example (but not mine) of the early writing I did.
I was still gigged until sixth grade for using the German T and R.

The style you see is Offenbacher. I still have a “zick-zack” penmanship as it is referred to.
Click on the image and you’ll see an enlarged picture.
What does the handwriting read? Read the title of this post.