Handwriting, the forgotten art?

I am very proud of my handwriting. I love the look of a handwritten letter, I still love to receive them. I push my daughter to improve her printing, to make sure that she can be understood. I was so excited for her to start the third grade, CURSIVE, oh she would learn cursive this year. Alas, I asked the teacher about when they would begin handwriting, I was told that they would no longer teach it to the third grade, it was unimportant!!!! Tonight, I told my daughter she needed to work harder on her printing, to practice by doing her work, she said "That's what technology is for mom, why do I need to improve my handwriting, it is good enough."
ARGHHHHHHH...I disagree, I strongly disagree. I will teach her cursive this summer, she will learn and use it, I don't agree with the teachers and I don't agree with the ever increasing dependence on word processing programs. Spell check is not always dependable, their, there, they're, all are spelled correctly, and yet using the wrong one will give you very different meanings, and the spell check won't catch it. The grammar check will though, maybe, if you haven't used the wrong form of the word in a sentence where it would fit. What about filling out applications, oh most of them are online now, the importance of hand writing goes to the wayside. I see people through my work who have little competence when it comes putting pen to paper. Very few have the handwriting skills to fill out a form, let alone sign their names. I had a hard time on Friday when I came upon an illiterate student who could not even sign his own name, it was sad.
A long time ago I noticed that to raise my daughter with the values I think should be passed on to her in this area, in this time period, it would be very hard. It is like pounding my head against the wall some days. She doesn't want to work, she says the other kids don't work so hard so why should she. Is it the area I live in, or the state of the world? I don't know.
Maybe I am wrong, but it seems that handwriting is the lost art, or at least the act of putting pen to paper is perhaps out of date. Maybe I am the only person who still does it, it's been a really long time since I last received a letter that wasn't e-mail or typed through the post office. Maybe I am in the wrong time period.