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		jamiek88 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The End of Handwriting You said it in a more challenging way than I would but yeah I thought as i read that comment ‘it sure felt like punishment to me’ as I had similar public ‘chiding’ over my inability to improve my handwriting like it was some moral failure.

taeric 3 months ago [–]

I get what both of you are saying. But "bad marks" on an assignment is more what I had in mind. And it isn't punishment to get a bad grade.

It is disappointing, on many levels. But criticism is not punishment. Even if it can be punishing.

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