Pen and paper stopped being used as early as the early 90s. If standardized testing had nothing to do with medium then how is the parent comment measuring perf

Pen and paper stopped being used as early as the early 90s. If standardized testing had nothing to do with medium then how is the parent comment measuring performance of the medium? Letting kids figure it out on their own sounds like digital abstinence education. Most people will agree spending years learning cursive italics ultimately ended up being useless. Personally writing with pencil and paper as a child was painful due to hand cramps and no one could help teach me how to hold the pencil without causing these cramps. It turned me off of writing for much of my childhood. Plus we were poor so I'd use the pencils until they were a nub because I might not get more, and asking neighbors for pencils chronically was embarrassing. Funny you say Chromebooks are a waste, but then want kids to do arts and sports at school. Those aren't free programs. Can't kids learn those motor skills outside of school? How do we judge performance gains of these extra-curricular activities? Also those sports should all be non-contact. Football and soccer have been shown to literally lead to brain damage.