It’s a tale as old as time.

Or at least as old as Snapchat, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

For the eighth year in a row, state Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, introduced a bill that would require Indiana elementary schools to teach cursive handwriting.

Cursive handwriting became optional in 2011, after the state adopted (then ditched) the Common Core State Standards. Leising has been fighting to have cursive writing added back to state standards ever since.

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Leising's previous efforts have passed the Senate but died each year in the House at the hands of Rep. Bob Behning, chair of that chamber’s education committee and, thus, gatekeeper of education policy in the House. Last year, Behning acquiesced to the point of reminding schools that teaching cursive was an option in an omnibus education policy bill.

Apparently unsatisfied with that result, Leising will push on this year with another attempt to get cursive writing back into all Indiana’s elementary schools. We’ll see if the Senate’s new education committee chair, Sen. Jeff Raatz, R-Centerville, will continue to hear the bill.

Leising has argued that cursive writing is an important skill for, among other things, signing important legal documents. Don’t tell Gov. Eric Holcomb, though, who signs bills in an all-caps block script.

Call IndyStar education reporter Arika Herron at 317-444-6077. Follow her on Twitter: @ArikaHerron.