Vigilante

Teach both cursive and good printing.

I think cursive is a waste of time, at a personal level. I learned it as a child and quickly dropped it in HS and barely remembered it existed in college.

I would like to see children learn good printing, like an engineer. Children writing similar to print you would see on an exploded schematic would be fantastic IMO.

Not to say that it should be required, not at all. If a child is very literate and has a taste for the arts rather than mathematical thinking, then the cursive they were also taught may come in handy for them. My mom is a perfect example of the english teacher that loves language and fancy styles of writing, while my dad is a mechanical engineer and writes like he's doing a schematic.

I'm pretty sure any teacher can deal with both styles for reading/grading purposes.

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