My kids are in school right now in the US. They teach cursive for a few days just so kids recognize it but there's no penmanship. They also don't teach spelling because it's not at all useful for developing critical thinking and spelling will evolve on it's own just with reading. COVID definitely accelerated things but lots of homework assignments are done in Google Classroom.

The actual hardest thing to go paperless is math. When they teach strategies and ask to "show your work" there's no easy way to type it.

Rightfully so. People still have to physically write.

They do teach how to touch type in schools