[specialist]

Nice story, thanks.

Studying cursive, calligraphy, lettering, graffiti, cuneiform, emoji and so forth should all be standard units.

Call it "writing systems and visual languages". Incorporate (adapt) Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" and Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach".

Compare and contrast different systems thru the ages. Have kids invent their own alphabets and fonts.

And then offer elective classes, perhaps under the humanities and arts curriculum.