I went to Catholic School for 12 years and penmanship was taught, but there are just some of us who couldn’t get the hang of it, and 1 of them was me.
DD started catholic school in 3rd grade and it was a disaster- they just ordered that every kid would do their work in cursive - without teaching it.
It was a nightmare for her and for me to try and teach it to her and keep her ego up when she failed spelling and could spell the words but not legibly write them.
This year in 6th grade - cursive has been dropped. Her handwriting is still awful. Meanwhile am homeschooling 6th grade brother and teaching him...cursive.
So far his writing looks good.
Me, too. Even my printing sucks. I had a boss call it "hieroglyphics"