>>>I have terrible handwriting but I was at school a few years before computers really made a hit in the UK's education system (I'm 31). I would often get marked down for poor handwriting and yet never quite understood why I wasn't allowed to bring in printed works.
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>>When my kids were in school, we had to fight with a few teachers about letting them submitted typed work. I was going to write that I think that's pretty much gone now, but seems to me one of my nieces or nephews just had the same fight.
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>Over the last few of years my partner has returned to both college and university to gain qualifications in both childcare and teaching. I was amazed when she told me that she could submit assignments that had been written by hand. When I was at University (1993) my assignments had to be typed or printed; luckily I was already proficient with the key office applications of that time.
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>My fellow students were not so lucky. They had gone through the same kind of schooling as I had. From writing all assignments by hand through high school and college, they were expected to leap to typing essays of several thousand word's length.
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>My partner tells me that the current system allows for assignments to be submitted in any format as long as they are neat, presentable and, most of all, legible.
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>I can only imagine how great school would be in this day and age. Students today have access to so many more resources than when I was there.


I don't know if it would have worked so well for me. I would probably be farting around on the internet instead of doing my assignments ;-) There were enough distractions already between playing basketball almost every day and chasing after women.