[amyjess]

I'd rather just have junior high and high schools offer a calligraphy elective. That'll allow people to learn it for its artistic merits if they want to without having to bog down the elementary school curriculum.

And instead of teaching people pure block letters, teach them some form of italics or D'Nealian. That offers some of the aesthetic advantages of cursive without the unreadability.

(interestingly enough, my elementary school in the early '90s taught D'Nealian and cursive, but no pure block letters)