And I have to say, when she started bringing this stuff home and saying that she’d been corrected for not writing her cursive capital “G” correctly, I realized I hadn’t done it myself ...

After all, they learned to read and write in Chinese in their school's language immersion program. That's a lot tougher to master than the swooping strokes of a cursive capital "G." ...

Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching.