Throughout grades 2 and 3 there was a raging battle between the parents and the teachers to let us use the fountain pens (the kind where the ink supply was sucked from the inkwell into a rubber bulb; no cartridges).
I seem to recall that in about 1958 when the Bic Biro made it's first appearance, they were banned as "instruments of the devil". Not sure why really. Possibly because they were thought not to facilitate a beautiful copperplate hand.
All that ink was so difficult to manage for the poor left handers, who were just then being permitted to use their favoured dominance.
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