Maybe we could just require all kids to buy a cursive font. This is ridiculous.
My mother made me write a page full of letters every night after school before I could go out and play. Today, I get compliments in banks, on applications, etc of my superb penmanship. I'm told it is unusual for a man.
We are spending all our time teaching kids touchy feely stuff in school and forgetting about the essentials that insure their futures.
"With the advent of computers, cursive, as a way of formalizing correspondance, has fallen out of favor. Any task which would have once required a "fair hand," is now done using word processing and a printer. Increasingly, the teaching of cursive is being de-emphasized in schools, and is generally reserved only for situations such as timed tests with large writing portions, where it considered faster, although this use too is falling out of favor."
from Wikipedia.
I couldn't agree with you more.