Maybe in your county, but my teachers give kids zeros or marked them off for bad handwriting and spelling errors.
we live in the same state. and i have the worst handwriting i can only get a 0 if it is completly unreadable and then the teacher just asks me to type it up.
I'm liking this, now that you've rewritten it. Space out paragraphs, every time someone speaks a new paragraph is made, and Im getting a feeling this is going to the same, basicly, as many stories Ive read.