[Gllug] Light the blue touchpaper...

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Andrew Halliwell said:
> Specially if they're being taught to use computers to write all their essays
> and things now, give the spoilt brats a pen and exercise book and only mark
> it if it's IN the book, in freehand.
> 
> Then you can mark them down on handwriting as well as bad spelling and
> grammar. (My handwriting's terrible by the way, so I'm not entirely being
> biggotted)

They did that to me: it took a *lot* of effort, even after a dyspraxia
diagnosis, to get them to accept typewritten homework.

(Comments like `if he doesn't write regularly he'll forget how to write'
kept emerging. Nowadays I write perhaps a few words a month by hand, and
oddly enough haven't forgotten how to do it.)

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 often this is punctuated with a church council when everyone goes mad
 and starts yelling and playing cards at each other and persecuting and
 making deals.' --- Jo Walton on _Credo_
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