One of the fundamental aims of the rightprivatizing folks is to make what we formerly knew as education into indoctrination, is to banish critical thinking and anything stinking of individuality.
Some people may have been alerted to this, if they followed the Trayvon Martin case, where Rachel Jeantel was vilified for her inability to read cursive writing.
You can't have an ability if they don't teach it.
In our bean-counting ways, it has become more important to teach to the test (or lie about the stats, or falsify them) than to aid in a child's development.
Late in life, a friend said to me, as a product of the public school system in Cleveland,( in a good area in the 60's) the teachers would say "Try to write like the Catholics."
Yes, in my world, the nuns were crazy about penmanship.
I tend to think of it as a western calligraphy tradition, however.
Am I the only person bummed out to see Asian languages rendered into some kind of English?
I love the concept of rendering language into beautiful brushstrokes.
And that is kind of what cursive English brings to memory.