> > I hear ya' Dave. Since middle school, if I had homework besides math I typed it
> > up. History questions, essays, any thing like that was typed.
>
> Same here.
> I remember once in primary school I got given lines (can't remember what for), and I did *them* on computer as well.
> Didn't get away with it, of course.
> Ah, nostalgia... :o)
>
> > I hold my pencil funny, or at least other people think I do. I spent most of
> > elementary school with one of those plastic things on the pencil to try to force
> > my grip to change. I got sore hands. People seemed to think my bad
> > handwriting (and printing) was from how I held my pencil. The fact that it got
> > worse when ever I held my pencil the way they said I should didn't bother
> > them, nor the fact that I'm a tolerably good at drawing.
>
> This sounds familiar... :o)
>
> Although my writing was never bad enough to incite parnet teacher conferences.
>
> Pa"what is a parnet, anyway?"ul

parnet- a device, used in sets of two, to capture problems with in a student and hopefully fix them.

Speed'parnet,exactlywhatImeanttotype,really'ball