Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
The fact that schools now don't teach cursive writing baffles me....all the kids who can't sign their name. They can print it, but they have no ability to sign their name, which causes legal problems with official documents.

Let alone being able to read cursive writing.

Yup, social engineer the classroom, the "everyone wins", "everyone get's a window seat", mentality, while they fail at one of the most important fundamentals, simple writing.
Victorian cursive is actually quite hard to learn effectively for children with problems such as dyslexia. I can say this as my daughter is dyslexic amongst other things.