Brave new world

Them teachers... Tsk... I ask you...
Have they not heard of copying and pasting?
What is the craic with this copying and handwriting? How counterproductive is that?

Poor James here is forced to rewrite by hand what his mate Ryan had to write by hand, before they can deliver identical homework to their teacher, in a copy book. Made from actual paper!!!
How last millennium is that?!

The secondary school kids on the other hand are ISO compliant: James called Ryan on his mobile to ask him to photograph the page in his copybook and post it on James' Facebook timeline so that he could check the jpeg on his tablet.
They both have an electronic copy of the homework in the cloud.

The only unthinkable anachronism here is that handwriting malarkey.
When will they ever use that after school?
CTRL + C and CTRL + V are they only two real skills they'll ever need.
That handwriting intermediary step may stimulate a dangerous modicum of thought process ("What did he write there? What do these words that I am copying actually mean? Isn't there a better way of phrasing that? Does he make sense?")

And thinking reduces productivity.

And decreased productivity means less revenue.

Tsk... them teachers and their archaic writing on paper...