So I had a flabby nikka moment, when did they stop teaching cursive writing in school?

[concise]

I'm confused, if the congressman was able to forge the checks, doesn't that mean signatures mean very little and can be duplicated?

Idk how showing how easy it is to forge a signature is a plus to signatures being a unique identifier.

Hence notaries and systems in place to combat forgery in banks.


I was genuinely asking a question so I may be off but I'm kinda confused on how a congressman forging a signature is somehow proof a signature is important. Rather than having systems in place to counteract fraudulent withdrawals and transfers.


Is your signature really that unique that if I really tried with a copy in front of me or used as tracing that I wouldn't be able to replicate it close enough for nobody to notice?


Edit: I was actually wrong on this, and forensic handwriting is still practicable.


Goddamn @concise, now you really got me curious about this shyt. I might have to rethink my signature or at least look into this more. I actually never thought more into it outside of practicable usages considering the rare usages of them, at least with me and my life.

Two of These Mail Ballot Signatures Are by the Same Person. Which Ones? (Published 2020)

How election officials vet voter signatures based on slants, sizes and loops.

www.nytimes.com

Signature verification is definitely a real thing, especially when it comes it voting, financials, and legals.


and you can find several youtube videos on how to forge more effectively (for entertainment purposes only, of course)

 

[DoubleClutch]

I could never read my moms cursive

I always wondered why invent a text that is HARDER to read

 

[TallMan_J]

If I’m hand writing a formal note that’s long in length, I write cursive. I prefer cursive in general. It feels more sophisticated or beautiful. I take pride in my penmanship too. I have very aesthetically pleasing and neat handwriting. Declaration of Independence type shyt.

Whether it is taught in my children’s class or not, they will be writing in cursive. I’ll teach them at home.

 

[Elle Seven]

I remember when it was standard to write your formal papers in cursive. You would take a sheet of lined notebook paper and stick it underneath a sheet of white printing paper to keep your writing neat and straight.

This was before we started typing stuff out on typewriters...do people on here remember having to use white-out to make corrections when using them?

I say, still teach your children cursive if you can. We may be in a digital age now but it is valuable to still teach those "analog" skills.

Speaking of which, I know someone who teaches in an alternative school, and she was telling me recently about students she gets who can't read an analog clock either.

 

[RadaMillz]

I'm and I don't remember cursive anymore, I can read it tho

 

[jackswstd]

My signature is immaculate, that’s it though. Can’t remember the last time I wrote a single sentence in cursive.

 

[Contrefaire]

My cursive is immaculate cause I took pride in my handwriting (my OCD)

On another note kids are also not taught how to write checks or read clocks anymore

Idk what tf happened or when but I'm 31 and was taught cursive starting in like 2nd grade meanwhile some of my cousins who are 2-4 years older than me can't write let alone read in cursive and were surprised to learn I could when we were kids.

My mom currently has staffers who are between 26-34 who also can't write/read cursive nor clocks and say they were never taught how which is mind blowing because we all came up in the same county and school system. Like I heard the rumors about them getting rid of cursive and analog clocks for Gen Alpha but the people I'm talking about are millennials through early Gen Z.

 

[detroitwalt]

Am I the only one whose signature has changed over the years? If you look at papers I signed when I was 17 and my signature today you would not believe they’re both mine. I read this is how GA was purging a lot of black voters from their rolls prior to one of the recent elections.

 

[KRayner]

my cursive handwriting looks better than my normal handwriting