CT, your explanation makes sense for back then, and maybe for when I was in school shortly after that time period, especially because the teachers may have used pens with ink when they were in school, but do you think people are stam continuing the practice 50 years later for no good reason? Especially considering what a mess pencil sharpeners make? After all, they don’t continue to make holes in desks to hold obsolete ink bottles. Learning to write with a pencil does have an advantage for developing fine motor skills, and perhaps that is why the practice continues. Meaning same practice continues, but the reasons have changed. My son’s OT stressed that he should draw with crayons and not markers for that reason, and I am extrapolating that to the preference for pencils over pens.
Then again, it could be all a plot from the pencil and eraser manufacturers.
PS- your description brought back fond memories of one of my favorite childhood book series by author Caroline Haywood (B is for Betsy..)
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