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For standard school papers and reports there's no reason the standard text editor on whatever platform (e.g. Wordpad, or its Mac equivalent) should not be accep
by ams6110 10y ago
For standard school papers and reports there's no reason the standard text editor on whatever platform (e.g. Wordpad, or its Mac equivalent) should not be acceptable.
About 6 years ago I showed my oldest son (in 8th grade at the time) basic LaTeX to write papers and he would turn in the PDF files.
Sure it's all moved to Google docs now and that's fine, but the requirement for office suites never made sense.
- analog31 10y agoI think that things have gotten a lot more relaxed, even within the time period that my kids have been in school. At first, formatting requirements for paper documents were simply applied to computer documents, and word processing was considered to be a preparation for college or the workforce. I remember grumbling: "Why are they wasting their time learning skills that will be obsolete by the time they reach college?" Even outside of school, word processing has gotten less important. The main "word processor" today is the e-mail program. Remaining uses for word processing include documents that nobody will ever read, and documents where there is a mandatory template, such as work instructions.