Signing on the dotted line

It is enough to make your head spin. Yet another article on on why we have to save penmanship. According to the article:

In Florida, handwriting was reinstated into Florida’s school standards in 2006, after educators became concerned that it was slipping away from classrooms. According to state guidelines, third graders must begin learning cursive, fourth graders must have legible writing and fifth graders must be fluent in the script.

And what is the most important reason for saving cursive writing?

Can you imagine being an adult and not being able to sign your name to a document?

Great. So now we’re spending instructional time over three years to teach kids to sign their name. Well, that’s certainly better than having them waste their time playing computer games….