[raarky]

Teachers like to use Comic Sans because of the little 'a'. It's the same as the one you learn to write.

All the other fonts use the weird typewriter 'a.

[ward]

This argument doesn't fly when you are only taught to write in cursive, as is the case everywhere here in Belgium (and surrounding countries?), as far as I am aware. It still got overused here as well. I remember one teacher in highschool claiming Comic Sans was better (more readable) for people with dyslexia. I never checked that out, but I don't attribute much truth to it.