And now instead of teaching disabled students how to improve their handwriting to improve their lives regardless of their circumstances, we lowered the bar and made all students have bad handwriting.
I am talking about disabilities which affect things like motor control which means that they cannot improve their handwriting very much.
How does good handwriting improve people's live significantly? I know some people who prefer handwritten notes and I think there is research that says they can be more effective when learning, but most adults very rarely write more than a few lines by hand.
You could say the same of PE, maths, literature, or almost anything learned in school. Few adults need them in their lives, but they provide good habits and virtue to students. People who don't read and write anything outside social media are a loss to themselves and to society.
Disabilities don't disappear after school, and children who struggle with motor control in school will continue struggling with it on adulthood. Half the point of school is finding out your weaknesses and learning to overcome them in a safe and controlled environment.
Studying maths and literature should develop your mind in many ways and gives you a chance to enrich your life. I do not see how handwriting will do that.
Pushing someone with a disability to improve their handwriting will not cure their disability. How does making people struggle more help them? its like suggesting kids in wheelchairs should be made to try to walk.
> . Half the point of school is finding out your weaknesses and learning to overcome them
Learning to use a computer as a means to overcome a disability that makes handwriting painful or difficult or illegible sounds like it'd qualify as exactly that.
