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These days ball point pen have become thin enough that cursive writing is not bad or ugly. But children and teachers should be taught not to use a thick ball point pen.

It's not about line width, it's about the amount of pressure one uses to write, and the angle at which they hold the pen.

In Germany they used to use fountain pens in school almost exclusively.

(Not sure if that's still the case. It was up to ten years ago, definitely.)

In Hungary in the 80s, in the first two years we had to use fountain pens as well. Dodgy ones, didn't like it, but now I have my decent collection and I love them.

People still learn cursive writing in .hu, it is much faster writing in that style.

basically true, I didn't really understand my own handwriting and how to write until I switched pens