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I think it should be taught, but it doesn't have to be as important. I love writing by hand and I think printing is pretty boring. I use a mix of printing and cursive and still know how to write cursive for the most part.
I think a lot of people's writing is atrocious so they should definitely learn to write by hand, and well.
I don't see the value of learning to type over learning to write by hand. I don't think we should rely on machines for everything. I also don't see why people need to learn to type since I type very fast and nobody taught me. Seems pretty straight-forward, it's just punching at keys and learning to find a way to use both hands at a regular rhythm.
Maybe if your job entails typing fast you should take a course in it, but teaching kids? I also don't get how kids nowadays do all their work on computer. I think that writing things out yourself is far more conducive to learning than typing it out and watching it appear on a screen. I don't think it helps in connecting with your work and really understanding it. I don't think making thing easier for kids is always the best option. A lot of people these days turn out bloody lazy and it's easy to see why.
There is also a sense of pride in something written or drawn by you that is not quite as strong when you have made it with the aid of a machine. At least, I felt that as a kid, sometimes even now as an adult.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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