Considering the general demographic I'm pretty surprised at the amount of people here, who say they no-longer no-longer use (joined) handwriting. Does anyone here keep a diary or journal (in a notebook). What about daily jottings in note-books if your an amateur poet or writer of fiction? Or even (gasp!) hand-written letters?

As to the OP story, I'm generally against any innovations in education which increases dependency on (expensive) technology and decreases basic skills which enable independence and self-reliance - and indeed the capacity to teach oneself new skills.

They introduced calculators when I was at school, I believe that was detrimental to my grasp of basic maths and especially mental arithmetic.