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We used fountain pens in elementary school, and I'm younger than 30. Europe though.
Definitely not here in the US. In elementary and middle school the standard was the old #2 pencil, and teachers were already ranting at us on a regular basis for using gel pens in strange colors. By high school, I was literally the only person in the building who owned one and I used it to deliberately annoy one specific teacher. (A fountain pen, that is, not a gel pen.)
Even so, I'll bet you your fountain pen was a cartridge filler and didn't have a lever. Right?
Yes we filled it with a cartridge. That didn't stop us from getting ink everywhere 😅. Not as dramatic as the comic of course. I still have the pen. It still works as well, but the tip has been ground flat from so many years of writing. I guess I didn't have the lightest hand as a kid.