Reply To: Children not allowed to use pens

I have never been able to use a pencil without cringing. School was a nightmare. Because my hands shook when I used a pencil, my handwriting in pencil wasn’t good enough for the teachers to officially allow me to use a pen. I rebelled, stopping just short of telling them that if they made me use a pencil I’d shove it in their eye. I brought a pen and no pencils. They didn’t like it, but they couldn’t stop me. I made a total of five mistakes in pen in school.