Parents, educators, and fellow penmanship advocates have been lamenting the end of handwriting for years. Ultimately, the researchers hypothesized, time spent holding devices rather than pencils might be impacting whether kids had all the motor skills they needed to learn handwriting when they entered kindergarten. The problem is that learning handwriting might be necessary to learn everything else. For example, in many states lawmakers have passed legislation to ensure kids learn cursive in US public schools. Some experts support this, but many don’t think learning cursive, specifically, is all that important.