Edited out answer to Tjej who I see was responding to a rather unreasonable comment about how handwriting is a matter of sheer effort.
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| I would have much rather have the teacher call me WEEKS before said grade card and told me he needed some work on his handwriting or something. I had NO clue until he got his grade card so it was a bit of a shock to me. |
I can understand this, because although you see the handwriting, you don't know how it compares and each sheet might not be graded.
However, she probably only calls parents of kids whose work is "unsatisfactory" or below a C.
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| In an educated adult, it's laziness, pure and simple. |
No. I know a lot of driven, skilled lefties and their handwriting SUCKS. I saw my BIL's handwriting in a foreign language (with a foreign alphabet) and I looked up and him and said, "Are you left-handed?" "How did you know?" "This is the work of a lefty..."
Fascinatingly, it's almost equally bad when they write with their right hands.
That is okay. You know what? Every single first chair in my band classes was a lefty, and I never got past third. Brain pieces missing, LOL! Not my talent. It all works out.
to the OP. I dread my kids getting grades.
In the book "What's Going on in There?", there is a line about how parents slowly learn their babies are not perfect: "If nothing else has burst your bubble, your first parent-teacher conference should do the trick."
And she's like, really smart and her kids probably are, too.
Neither my left nor my right hand goes on the words I'm writing, my hands are under the words.
