Love this. I am licensed k-12 however for the past 8 years I have only taught high school. Prior to that I was in jr/sr high schools.What ages do you teach? I have one in kindergarten and he brings home mounds of paperwork each week!
His hand writing is better than the 5th graders (but he takes his time). Amazon is bringing the 5th grader a few handwriting books tomorrow. He'll do them to earn electronics time this summer...
Even at the MS level, a lot of schools aren’t sending home tablets, or laptops. Too much risk in damage and schools can’t afford those repairs. I suspect most high school level students are expected to either possess or have access to computer based learning tools. That’s not to say that all content areas don’t use handwriting though.
I’m not saying there is anything wrong with it. But at the level and content material I use it’s very little paper and pencil. If any at all.
We also use content specific software. Again it’s all technology based.
I joke with our technology department that they can fix all of these amazing electronic tools; however when I started school, we had an abacus in the room. I challenged them to develop the woodworking skills to fix that.