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[quote=Anonymous]As a high school special ed teacher, I see a lot of high school teachers and departments moving to more handwritten assignments to try to avoid kids using AI.  This is a very valid concern, but it leads to two sets of problems.

One is kids who have disabilities that impact their fine motor skills.  Often times, if there aren’t other disabilities, those kids haven’t had 504’s, but now they need to get them.  There are solutions to the issue of typing and AI but they are hard to scale up to whole classes.  A 504 lets the teacher make an exception for your individual kid.

The other issue is kids for whom lack of proper instruction, and lack of practice has meant that they didn’t develop efficient letter formation, and muscles in their hand, so while they can write legibly enough for 9th grade assignments that have fill in the blank and short response they fall apart on something like a DBQ in an AP class that requires extended writing.
 Long term, the solution to that is a combination of improved handwriting instruction in early grades, gradually increasing demands for writing across middle and high school so kids develop stamina, and developing tech solutions.

None of those things help current 12th graders though, so I think the PP who discusses having kids come to you to read the words you can’t is probably the most realistic.

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