“Why is the world so cruel?” Christopher Borrelli, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, wrote last year. “My thoughts turned to the children, the poor darlings, who must be scared and confused now, wondering what they did to tick off the gods of education,” he wrote. Kathleen Wright, who worked for Zaner-Bloser, a company that publishes cursive workbooks and sponsored the national competition, said 24 states now required some form of cursive instruction, including seven that had adopted policies since 2013. “People mistakenly assumed because we had computers, we didn’t need handwriting. We need both.”

Source: New York Times December 17, 2019 10:00 UTC