In my school system, the (primary/elementary) school wouldn't let you use pens until you learned to do "joined" handwriting. Problem students used to get forced into extra classes before school opened where they were forced to join every non-capital letter in their words (including Gs, Qs. Ys, etc.). Without fail, everyone who came out of that class ended up writing illegible garbage, and had to unlearn those "lessons" over the next few years to get back to something humans could read. Poor bastards