They tend to change our cursive every 10 years, and current one doesn't much differ from print, so I don't feel that nostalgic over kids learning to write different letters than I did. And they still teach kids to read also older print styles, which I do consider important.
However I do feel that spelling and especially grammar are still important. Spell checks don't do it all and in fact can change the message you are trying to convey. Grammar, even more so. And let's not forget that you are totally screwed when learning new languages if you don't know your basic grammar. Every language has different logic and different grammar and if you haven't learned the concepts in your first language, it is almost impossible to understand how it works in foreign languages. Let's face it, I'm lost enough with if I should use imperfect or preterite in Spanish now, I can't even fathom trying to figure that out if I wouldn't have clear understanding, what imperfect is. And I remember when I was changing schools, and language of instruction, just before I had my second year of English in fourth grade. In my first school I was instructed with language that doesn't have future-tense at all so it wasn't taught in grammar either when going through tenses. In that school they would had taught it in fourth grade English. However, the language of instruction at that second school does have future tense and it was taught in grammar classes on third grade and at fourth grade we were expected to understand the concept. Made it quite hard for me to grasp the idea of when I was supposed to use future tense in English, even though I knew how to use it when speaking the instruction language of that second school.
I'm also not a fan of using calculators early on in education. Basic math skills are something you need to know without using calculators anyway. And when you get a little bit more advanced, you actually have to learn the concepts to actually understand the math. And you can teach those concepts without calculators to very advanced level if you want to. Sometimes calculators just give you a way around of learning and that is a bad thing. You can't learn higher level math, if you don't understand those very basic level concepts that are taught before University level. And even if you don't want to learn higher level math ever, just relaying to your calculator easily gives people troubles. Often when kids are allowed to use calculators too early and too much, they will miss understanding how you actually do the math and if the answer you are getting is even possible. Then kids may give answers that 10 or 100 or 1000 times wrong and not even wonder how on earth size of this bread they were trying to calculate could be about the same as average apartment building. That may not sound that bad, but do you want that person to be a nurse who tries to calculate how much morphine to put to your IV after a surgery? Or do you want to be that person, who doesn't really understand how to do your percentage math and how doubling the interest rate makes things different when taking a mortgage?