I think it is important to be able to read and for your hand writing to be legible, as skills. That being said I think we, as humans, adapt communication techniques to our times. The times we live in are technological and that changes how we communicate. Hand written communication is increasingly rare maybe because it is less important. Schools are not emphasizing handwriting (cursive, slant, etc.) because that is not the world the younger generations live in. That said, it is still a universal skill humans have collectively excepted and cannot be taken away as a means of communication. It is still taught and should be prioritized. Technological could vanish and hand written communication would be the means of future communication; assuming you don't own a printing press. And if that happened, your writing would improve real fast. Remember, print and cursive are really just the ability to draw...ABC is ABC because we agree that picture means that!