She is young and hasn't had experience using checks at the bank. She was unhappy to learn that the bank accepted her signature only if it was written in "cursive". Years ago, when me and my classmates learned cursive handwriting, a.k.a. "script", in the 3rd grade, it was an exciting step into one aspect of adult behavior. But, back in the early part of the last century, computers, email and such were unheard of. She did learn cursive writing but it was several years ago and there has been no call to use it since.
We cannot cram everything that might be useful or fun into the K-12 years. As with just about everything, the right speed and the right load are needed. So, keyboarding/typing and maybe some coding and program/app construction may be inserted into the curriculum.
I read about computers just before I began using the computer "language" Fortran in graduate school in 1967. We were to construct a program that could supply the number of days between any two dates the professor gave us. He gave no further specifications or information and we knew the man was a sly trickster. We tried to be ready for dates running from the BC era over into the AD era. We learned that the Pope's astronomers warned him that the small difference between the calendar and the actual heavens had accumulated such a gap that he needed to do something. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII declared that the day after Thursday, October 4, was Friday, October 15. There were riots protesting people's lives being shortened!
A few results of a Google search don't make me optimistic about the future longevity of cursive handwriting.
