[meeera]

Kids here are taught cursive, and are generally fluent in it by high school. I can't much see the point in over-emphasising it at the expense of more useful learning areas, and I see nothing wrong with printing for the small amounts of writing required in most jobs/professions these days. In my experience printing tends to be more legible, which can only be a plus.

(When I say 'in my experience' - I'm mostly talking about the experience of trying to read notes written by doctors, nurses and allied health people educated in the 1940s-1970s. It was always a pleasure to come across an entry in printing rather than cursive. No, we didn't all have copperplate cursive back in the good old days.)