If we are considering requesting a skip, we drfinitely need to work on his handwriting.
This is frustrating, isn't it? It's important though... DS(now 8) had troubles with this as well and his math answers would sometimes be illegible because of it. When I'd ask him what they were, he'd answer correctly, but what he'd written was so difficult to read that it would have been marked wrong at school. DS & I had many, many conversations about how "you have to write your numbers (and letters) the same way as everyone else or they won't know what you've written."
FYI he's 8 now and it's much better.
