I'm guessing that you're agreeing with Jan, Annie, that a table of offsets should be provided. I disagree.
The first dinghy I built was a dory from a table of offsets in Skene's Elements of Yacht Design. That was the only method available to designers in the first half of the 20th century. They just didn't have large format printers available to them.
Later, I built a clinker ply dinghy to a design by Iain Oughtred. He draws traditionally with pencil and paper, but instead of, or as well as, a table of offsets, he supplied me with a full size sheet, probably A0 or the imperial 40" x 30", of sections that I had to transfer onto the moulds for building. This was better than lofting from offsets, with less room for error. Todays equivalent is to take a CAD design on a memory stick to a copy shop and ask them to print it full size on A0 paper, or even on a continuous roll of paper or film. Printing at home at A4 size is only really adequate for studying a design, not building it.
Of course, with boats that are too large for stitch and tape construction, we are stuck with a table of offsets; but with stitch and tape, we need to loft out individual planks. Dimensioning a drawing, whether hand-drawn or computer-drawn, will work - but there is scope for error in both dimensioning and lofting that is not there in transferring a shape at full size from paper to plywood. Remember how we made errors in lofting out station 2 bulkhead on FanShi, which gave you trouble in planking the bow later on?
I suggest that you're projecting your own likes and dislikes onto today's schoolchildren, Annie! My granddaughter, aged 12, is a budding artist. She draws with pencil and eraser in paper sketchbooks, but is just as happy and more productive on the old computer I've given her, and is now hankering after a state of the art iPad so that she can do even better work. Students today grow up using computer technology from an early age. I wouldn't want to hold them back (but by all means let them be told about yesterday's methods in their history lessons).