Handwriting - is it still a required skill?

How important it is to teach the kids nowadays handwriting? Because most of their lives they will probably type.
Or do you think that it is important to connect their brains with their motoric capabilities, to create a better human a whole?

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TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F

Unfortunately it isn't required, but I still think it's important. I work for the Department of Revenue, and I have to make sure that information on scanned forms (most of which were filled out by hand) gets entered into the system correctly. If people don't write legibly, then I can't get their information entered correctly into the system, and that is a problem. Some people can't even seem to write numbers legibly, let alone names. It's frustrating, as it makes my job quite difficult.