> We have to notice that high stakes exams on paper worked for hundreds, possibly thousands of years

Define “worked” there are reasons we have abandoned quite a few archaic practices which turned to be highly ineffective in hindsight (and often quite misery inducing). I’m not implying that handwriting is one of them just that it’s a terrible argument.

> burden of proof is on the side saying that kids

Smacking children who fail to give a correct answer with a stick worker for thousands of years as well..