I hear that some Americans still use pencils in middle or high school. My school personally discouraged using pencils after age 9 or so and preferred pens. Do alot of people write with pencils in school? How long could you still write with them? Is it preferred to use pencils over pens or can the students just choose? Also wouldn’t your handwriting be pretty bad ? I mean i already have bad handwriting but pencils make it look like hieroglyphs.