Remember the days when laptops weren’t a thing? When we’d write notes by hand in school? When we’d write in SCRIPT?

Those swirly, elegant letters used to be the norm when it came to writing everything from letters to diary entries—but somewhere along the way from pencil and paper to a keyboard and mouse, cursive dropped off. People began to write in regular block lettering and more so than ever, type their words instead of write them.

Kids these days have no idea how to write script. It was once normal for teachers to teach students the twists and turns of the letters, but these days no one really writes much by hand anymore.

However, one school system in Texas recently realized how important script was and finally has plans to bring it back! The State Board of Education made the change to bring it back to Texas schools in 2017, but it will go into implementation for the 2019-2020 year.

That’s right, this upcoming year, as part of new updates to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), kids—specifically, second grade students—will be required to learn how to write the traditional penmanship.

The new change will require that by third grade, students will be expected to be able to “write complete words, thoughts, and answers legibly in cursive writing leaving appropriate spaces between words.” By the time they leave fourth grade, they must be proficient in cursive handwriting.

In addition, script writing will be added back into elementary school curriculum during the 2019-2020 school year for all Texas school districts.

Personally, I think this change is great. As a writer, I love words and writing the heck out of them. Some might see the requirement as a bit pointless, but there’s a good reason for it: Experts say that the fluid motions that script requires you to do may help children develop fine motor skills and even improves hand-eye coordination.

“Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and typing,” said Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education company. “As a result, the physical act of writing in cursive leads to increased comprehension and participation.”

In fact, the College Board even found that students who wrote in script for the essay portion of the SAT actually got higher scores than those who didn’t write in script.

The theory for this is that the writing in cursive is more speedy and efficient than non-cursive writing, which allows you to focus more on the content you’re writing. printed, which experts believe is because the speed and efficiency of writing in cursive allowed the students to focus on the content of their essays.

So how are people feeling about the change? Check out people’s responses in the video below.

Do you typically write in script or regular font? What do you think about the fact that cursive will soon be taught again?