I remember the workbooks with divided widely spaced lines with the letters we had to practice over and over and over. By the time I started high school I had fine legible handwriting. By the time I separated from the Air Force, I was having to print because my handwriting had deteriorated to illegibility.
Mine too and cursive writing is a waste of time. If you want script there is an app for that. Typing was the big deal for years then speech to text got really good and people still use their thumbs over that.
What we could really use is a phonetic alphabet, so talking to people and computers would make sense, so would writing.