Not to diverge too far, but a similar issue is that many schools have stopped teaching children how to WRITE. You know, cursive copybook script with paper and pen according to some established writing system like Palmer, Specerian, D'Nealian, or Peterson. Thing is, as a handwriting expert, I know that handwriting is brain-writing--- the mind directs the hand, and, it is really a projection, the brain putting on paper a projection of how it thinks.
As such, handwriting not only teaches coordination, but DISCIPLINE. Young kids first learn a copybook style on the classroom blackboard, but if and when they're mind evolves to begin developing their own personality, ideas, and patterns of thought, their handwriting diverges from the copybook style they were taught to the individualistic patterns which makes all our handwriting a little different from others!
The failing of education now is, in part, because they've stopped teaching writing, not only aren't kids developing those skills, concentration and discipline, but by becoming ever-more dependent on electronic mediums for communication and interaction, have lost their interpersonal communication skills! And we see that in younger people who have lost the ability to carry on interaction with other people in person, social skills, and the ability to communicate and debate even when other people disagree with you.
It has really damaged our society and lead to adding to both a lot of the mental issues as well as crime and antisocial behavior in a lot of younger people.
If there is any good news, it is that some schools have recognized this and have gone back to teaching cursive and becoming less monolithic with computers and electronic mediums for everything, and studies show that it has shown an improvement in social skills and individual discipline.
But you had to know that in adding crap like CRT, they HAD to bump SOMETHING off to make room in the curriculum!
