<p>Back in elementary school when teachers would always try to intimidate you by saying how hardcore the teachers in the next grade were? Haha thinking about that stuff is so funny now</p>
<p>"You need to memorize the alphabet, or your 2nd grade teacher will just leave you behind!"
"If you don't memorize your multiplication tables by tomorrow, 4th grade math will be INCOMPREHENSIBLE."
"Your middle school teachers will require all essays to be written in cursive!"
"High school will be a place of mature intellectuals and scholars."
Don't you love reminiscing about how ignorant you were to school when you were little, and it always seemed like next year is when school would become ridiculously impossible? It's kind of sad how formulaic and predictable school got by the time I had started middle school, I miss being intimidated by the older kids in the big kid classes lol.</p>
<p>Yeahh same here I remember always thinking how the future grades would be soon difficult & how I’d survive it…looking back…that work was nothing ha!</p>
<p>^^ Lol I forgot how next year was always the year when late work would suddenly become unacceptable haha
The enormous build-up to high school was hilarious. They made it sound like it was suddenly going to become a palace of rigor and hardasses, and it ended up being elementary school with Facebook instead of recess. I’m really not even sure it’s metaphysically possible to not pass an on-level class.
I wonder if teachers got a kick out of overhyping everything to us.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say my handwriting is cursive, but a lot of the time I don’t lift the pen from the paper in the middle of a word. I find cursive to be slower just because I have to think about what I’m writing.</p>
<p>My teachers were STRICT on handwriting. I would’ve been a straight-A student in first grade if it wasn’t for penmanship. </p>
<p>I mean, if it’s decently legible, does it seriously matter? I hated it when the teacher always put up the perfect A+ handwriting practice papers on the bulletin board…grrr YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL!</p>
<p>And then I remembered when everyone got overly excited about learning cursive. The girls were squealing and everything. smh</p>
<p>I remember in second and first grade thinking that the fifth graders were the oldest and most mature kids EVER and I could never imagine being that old. Funnily enough, when I remember those days, they still seem older than me in my head, yet my friend’s younger sister is in fifth grade, and she seems so tiny.</p>
<p>Weird.</p>
<p>I also remember my second grade teacher saying “YOUR FIFTH GRADE TEACHER WON’T BE THIS EASY ON YOU. THEY DON’T COLOR THERE.”</p>
<p>I remember in second and first grade thinking that the fifth graders were the oldest and most mature kids EVER and I could never imagine being that old. Funnily enough, when I remember those days, they still seem older than me in my head, yet my friend’s younger sister is in fifth grade, and she seems so tiny.</p>
<p>Weird.</p>
<p>I also remember my second grade teacher saying “YOUR FIFTH GRADE TEACHER WON’T BE THIS EASY ON YOU. THEY DON’T COLOR THERE.”</p>
<p>I still use cursive for all my notes, but it’s about the same speed as printing. Printing is more economical with lines, but cursive is more economical with transition.</p>
<p>What I would give to return to first grade… :D</p>
<p>Seriously. No worrying about my SATs or constantly worrying about falling behind in school. I was the big cheese in first grade and I made damn sure the kids on the playground knew it.</p>
reppin’ the 952</p>