Lol!
My high school required typing classes for both boys and girls. This was mid-1970s. Good thing, because they make you type all your papers in college. Only they didn’t tell us why we had to to take it.
If they had, I might have got off to a better start. I had a mental block about learning typing. I had a horror of becoming a secretary. I thought it sounded like a terrible job. So... mental block. Good thing family clued me in, because as soon as I found out I needed it for college, I sailed right along to 60 words per minute. Mrs. Jones was a great teacher and I’ll always be grateful to her.
Now I guess kids can type before they learn to write.
My high school typing teacher took me aside at the end of the class to encourage me to keep up my skills. This was 1970, ans she said it would be a good way for me to stay off the front lines in Viet Nam should I be drafted. I ended up not getting drafted, but always remembered her concern for her young men students.
My 12 yr old can blaze on a keyboard…but he cant write cursive (sign his name) I flipped out when I realized this. He will soon be able to write cursive but he seems to regard the exercise as being as daunting as I considered learning to type.