I went to a religious school and we never had time to learn cursive properly. The teacher just started using it on the board one day and we adapted, or didn't. I vividly recall the fourth grade penpal project we did. We were paired with a class of kids in Iowa, and I remember the teacher explaining how they were all going to have much nicer cursive than we did because they weren't killing half the day on Hebrew and so had time to learn to write it properly
