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I'm barely older than you and received typing classes in elementary school. Moving forward from about 8th grade and up most of my schoolwork was performed via computer. The only things I wrote out by hand in high school were math/science worksheets.
It's fascinating which practical skills schools fail to teach, differing by district.
Part of it depends on where you grew up. born 1998 in a rural English village, We had computer labs or a crate of laptops but they weren't a focus for actual lessons and more of a treat between real classes.
Wasn't until I got to college that lessons actually started requiring you to use a computer.
We did formal typing classes in school starting from primary school up to middle school but that was not what made me a proficient typist. I got comfortable with a keyboard and more proper typing by actually doing it.
Some of that is on me for being a little shit in school, some of it is because the classes were shit. My point was that typing is a skill and there is more than one way to learn it and that a generation shouldn't be judged from a snapshot at a relatively young age.
That said, a relatively large number of the younger engineers I work with ARE missing critical basic tech/mechanical/problem solving skills so I do recognize that there seems to be a generational difference in some areas. I didn't get to work with a young engineer from a previous generation when they were a young engineer though so I can't say that for sure.