I don’t disagree with you, but I suspect learning to write single characters accelerates learning to read. Joined up writing is totally bogus and most of the time I encounter it it makes the author harder to understand, not easier.
> I think joined-up writing is about making it faster to write...
Totally. If I have to record what people said in a meeting, accurately because I want to quote rather than summarise them, joined up writing is invaluable.
> ... not easier to read
This is the downside. At the end of a meeting where I was responsible for taking minutes, I'd usually check back through my note book to make sure I could actually interpret what I'd written.
And in case people say - Why didn't I just record the meeting - there are still places where electronic recording devices are disallowed for security reasons.
