I admit that my tongue was planted rather firmly in my cheek when I made my remarks. However, neither your assertion that "Not everything done on [sic] schools

I admit that my tongue was planted rather firmly in my cheek when I made my remarks. However, neither your assertion that "Not everything done on [sic] schools is a conspiracy to keep pupils in check" nor the claim that there are more effective ways to indoctrinate pupils are actually arguments against my conclusions. My recommendation in this regard would be "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence". It avoids having to explain why one would want to teach joined-up handwriting, and has the added effect of doing down the school system—something that will almost always make one popular here.