We seem to be on the threshold of a new era.  Ok…perhaps that was a bit dramatic.  In the past good penmanship was greatly valued, and taught in school.  In the time since I was in elementary school, handwriting practice seems to have become a thing from bygone era.  Excuses for excluding penmanship range form lack of time to obsolescence.  I would argue that handwriting practice is still useful provided that the information being practiced has value beyond the shaping of letters.  This is why online handwriting worksheets are so great, you can choose the topic, from spelling words, to famous quotes.

Some people would argue that learning keyboarding skills is more useful to today’s students than handwriting.  In an age when everything seems to move more quickly, online keyboarding games certainly train a student in a useful skill.

I would hope that both handwriting and keyboarding skills are worthy courses of study.  We are using both in our home school this year, handwriting is a way for us to learn the Preamble of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  See if you can find time for both in your day to day schooling.  You might be pleasantly surprised.