In my experience, the public schools have really taken too much emphasis off printing and cursive. Piper is 5th/6th grade now, and they basically glossed over cursive, and stopped working on printing in 1st grade! Too much time going to standardized test prep. Piper's printing is horrible (2E issues), but for some reason she can do cursive beautifully. That said, I was happily surprised when her LA teacher told me they would be working a lot on cursive this year, maybe she noticed something missing?
