Learning how to write script develops the brain, as well as small finger skills; both very necessary!
And the stupid idea that nobody will need to know how to write any more, goes back over a 100 years and was first proposed by that moronic lefty, John Dewey, who said that because typewriters were being used at work, instead of people writing things by hand.
Penmanship was once a subject as important as math, geography, spelling, etc., in all grammar schools...until lately. But it should be still taught and practiced, as it once was.
John Dewey was evil, not stupid.