My cursive is much more legible than my scratch-print, although a move to all caps has improved legibility (combined with the fact I write small print) to the point people looking at a paper from a distance thinks it looks like computer script (I think these people need their prescriptions checked.)
We shouldn't abandon printing because the NWO will drop EMP bombs soon enough and we won't be able to type anymore, for the most part, because we blasted typewriters into achronia.
The problem is that schools don't teach proficiency long enough. We should take writing more seriously, although perhaps not to the level we feel calligraphy was taken by the East centuries ago. It doesn't need to be art, but it should be very legible and very regular, and I think the reason we as a people have such poor written communication is because there is no emphasis on maintaining what is essentially a skill.
Back in 1st grade I imagine you had the big sheets of paper with two solid lines and a dashed line where you practiced forming letters. That needs to be done in 10th grade too, maybe under the guise of English class and lexicography or something, I dunno. Maybe we do need to feel like it's an art we can take pride in.
Shorthand needs to be brought back to schools also.
Let me give you a heart-warming example of why we need to be able to write clearly and quickly: let's say you get a traffic ticket for a speeding violation, and you take it to court. In most cases the court will not be a court of record, there will be no recording or transcriptionist, and there will be no ability for someone to just bring in an audio recording to record the proceeding. You'll be limited then, for both the purposes of recording immediate things like testimony so that you might use it to cross examine, raise objections, or other legal things, or you may appeal this later and you need clear documentation of the proceeding to make good legal argument or impeach witnesses.
Neither my writing nor my typing has ever been fast enough to keep up with that. How about yours? Is it worth a 200 bucks (or 1750 in Virgina) to be deficient? Are you going to let your inability to keep up be the reason that the Man gets away with continually collection of easy money for the municipality and the creation of the appearance of crime?
Plus it might help you take notes at a class or seminar.