Why we should not grade students on their handwriting?

Question

Why we should not grade students on their handwriting?

Answer 1

Because it's not fair. What does one's handwriting has anything to do with grading?

Answer 2

Our store is at a disadvantage with no regular store manager. Other mangers for other stores are helping us out. Each writes notes so we all know what has been done and needs to get done. We can not read one managers ha d writing. Two of use went over the note several times trying to make out what the heck she was telling us.



Hand writing needs to be legible. Both my kids have a form of dysgraphia. They know to have to stop and consentrate on making any notes for other legible. It doesn’t need to be perfectly formed letters , it it does need to legible to anyone who needs to read it.



So as long as a teacher can easily read what is written .A grade isn’t necessary. But penmanship that is poor it can’t be read needs to be handled back and redone by the student.



Which is why catching poor penmanship at a young age is imperative.

Answer 3

People don't have that much control over their handwriting. A lot of brilliant people write in a way that is unreadable to others- their minds race ahead of their hands. I know a student who was graded on handwriting, and had to slow down her writing so much to meet the teacher's standards that then she didn't get her work done! Which is more important- that she develop fluency in writing, or that each letter is formed perfectly? Most adults type everything anyway.

Answer 4

I disagree, we should grade students on their handwriting and show them how to produce better handwriting.

Answer 5

Why grade a student if all he/she does is sleep in the classroom? The world would never know!

Answer 6

Because we should. Other people need to be able to read it at some point. If a student can't legibly write, we need to look into why because they may have a medical condition that's causing it.



You will find though some very intelligent people have poor penmanship so there is that too. Their mind works faster than their hand does at times. I write fast for myself, but I can read my own writing so if it's something just I need there's no issue. If it's something someone else needs to read, I slow it down.



I live in a community where we have a high "foreign" population where a lot of students their first language isn't English and can struggle with writing it (but they speak it fine) since they live in a society where English is most people's first language they also need to learn to write so people can read it.

Answer 7

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