Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive.

Then, she had the group of students that were eagerly watching her try to write it on their own, either on a lined worksheet or dry erase board.

She reminded them of some of the rules of writing in cursive, such as not lifting the pencil off the page until finishing writing a word, and recapped which way to tilt the paper based on which hand is writing.

“A lot of students don’t know how to do it,” Kenerson told WTOP.

Then, after several rounds of practice, Kenerson prepared students for a competition, during which they brainstorm and write down as many proper nouns that start with a specific letter as pos

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