On 7/11/2018 6:37 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>>
>> Just the opposite in the US, we learned to write long hand with
>> fountain pens.
>
> Things must have changed in the generation between you and me. I learned
> to write cursive with a pencil.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

Same here. I think it was fourth grade when we started with fountain
pens, ball points were rare then. I was in 5th grade when my mother
bought a PaperMate pen and let me write with it and my handwriting
improved. That was about 1955.