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As someone with pretty bad handwriting, I’m going to offer a few things that I think are worth considering.
Firstly, if you’re in a place where Sixth Grade is in middle school, it could be worth asking some of the other teachers who have the student what they’re doing, or if they can read his handwriting. In my experience at least, the ability to understand the writing can vary from teacher to teacher. Like, not to be an ass, but speaking from personal experience, if the student is only encountering this degree of difficulty in your class, that frustration is going to tinge all their interactions with you related to this problem and make them more likely to be resistant to the accommodations.
Secondly, again this is a personal anecdote, practicing cursive actually improved my print writing somewhat, so that could potentially help.
Thirdly, in general if you’re in the student’s position, this is something they’re probably already a little insecure about, so anything that brings attention to it is going to make them uncomfortable.
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