Should Students Be Graded On Their Handwriting?

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Students should be graded on their handwriting
For centuries writing was the tool used by humans to record the information and knowledge. They used different ways of writing, mostly all of those writings were taught to the generation that followed. The Greek had one type, the old Egyptians, and the Chinese. All of those old civilizations taught the upcoming generations their way of writing, so the knowledge and information could be passed to the future generations. But all of those ways had to be clear and neat. All of this adds to force neat hand writing, and hopefully with more evidence and facts you would feel persuaded.
Now days most of the world use the standard English writing. But not all write neatly and clearly. Good handwriting isn’t forced in all schools, as a result many students write awfully and their writings are barely readable. Many people say that we can use typing as a solution for the bad hand writing, but what if those students graduated and became doctors, do you know that the Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. ” http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1578074,00.html”. That is a shocking statistic, those innocents died because of sloppy handwriting, it’s a sad thing that needs to be solved quickly. Another point that could be against people who want typing …show more content…

One of the points that I would like to add to is that good handwriting makes the young learner to use his hands properly. Some people would say that they can learn from other different things. Truthfully, for a young kid what is the easiest thing he can try to learn from how to use his hands, it’s surly not a knife or a scissor both are dangerous for kids. And surly not carving, it’s a very hard thing to me and many other people too. Only professional carvers can. So teaching them how to write is much easier and

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