I've looked at some teaching materials and examples for KS2 and KS3 in England. It seems there's now more emphasis on letter forms than there was in the 1990s,

I've looked at some teaching materials and examples for KS2 and KS3 in England. It seems there's now more emphasis on letter forms than there was in the 1990s, when I was being taught "joined-up writing". I didn't have to put a stupid tail on the left of the C at the beginning of "cat", or any other round initial letter. Let alone the tail on a lower case initial H, or any capital letters.