Fewer schools are requiring children to learn and improve their handwriting skills. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of this trend?

Hand writing

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Handwriting

skills

is

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are

a critical aspect of education. Fewer number of schools require children to learn and enhance

written

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writing

skills. In my opinion, there are benefits of

this

change, which

are far outweigh

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are far outweighed

by its drawbacks. One of the benefits of not demanding

from

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for

students to enhance and learn writing skills is that children would be able to focus on the technical and

science

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scientific

skills acquisition. Time which is used to learn writing skills, can be utilized in learning computer and software skills, as well as scientific skills in physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

This

, in turn, means it would be beneficial, as they would be able to flourish in high demanding skills. A recent report

form

a giver or sender

from

Oxford University,

for instance

, showed that children who are not restricted to enhance writing techniques are 15% highly likely to perform better in technical and science subjects. Thera are several negative outcomes of not requiring focus

in

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on

writing skills.

Firstly

, if schools do not make the focus a mandatory aspect in writing skills, students would lose command in the spelling and the grammatical structure of a language. When children opt for writing, it is not only about hand

writing but

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writing, but

also

writing correct spelling and error free sentences.

That is

to say, having

unattentiveness

a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)

inattentiveness

and avoiding learning and enhancing writing techniques is detrimental. As students would not be able to convey an error free text and ideas if they are not made liable to learn writing skills.

Secondly

, having no focus in learning and enhancing writing skills can

also

be detrimental in the examination.

This

is because usually exams are paper-based all over the world and some exams

such

as at the intermediate level require children to write

huge number

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a huge number

of words.

This

, in turn, means giving no preference to writing skills affect the

performance

of students in

written

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writing

exam

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the exam

. Research by World Education Organization,

for example

, showed that restricting a group of students from

hand

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handing

writing for 3 months when given a chance to sit in the written exam, performed 30%

poor

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poorer

than their normal

performance

. In conclusion, schools are not demanding children to give time in learning and polishing

hand writing

something written by hand

handwriting

skills. In my view, the beneficial outcome is that children would be able to give time and focus

to

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on

technical and science skills, which is far

outweigh

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outweighed

by the downsides

such

as poor

performance

in the spelling and the grammar aspect, as well as bad

performance

in the written examination.