Why Writing Is Dead in Public Schools

[mountaineer]

Why Writing Is Dead in Public Schools
Writing is the other half of literacy
Dissident Teacher
Posted on X at https://x.com/educatedandfree/status/1891233042142003493

... When I was seated comfortably and his team had assembled, he perched on the edge of the long walnut conference table and said simply, “Our freshmen enter with an average GPA of 4.3. Please help us understand why they can’t write.”

At the time my answer was not very nuanced, but I offered it. I shrugged my shoulders and told him the truth: “We don’t ask them to.”
While the infrequency of writing was (and still is) a big part of the issue, it’s not the core of the problem.   ...

I’ll make this simple because it seems to be something we have lost hold of in American public schools. Before students can answer a question, they have to have an answer. Teachers mostly realize now that students don’t know anything about their subject, even after they’ve taught it for years. What a teacher often fails to see — and what no one has any real impetus to uncover — is that if he is still trying to instruct students directly, it’s not necessarily that his instruction is faulty, it’s that students are bringing no foundational knowledge to his subject.

And then there’s the whole other Oprah of the move towards discovery or experiential learning, an outworking of the anti-human philosophy that there is no objective truth, only personal preference. Nobody is writing anything useful in those classes. ...

Thought-provoking essay from a veteran teacher. Click on link above for entire article.
This author also writes at https://educatedandfree.substack.com/

[DefiantMassRINO]

If it doesn't fit in the subject line of an E-mail or a blog post, people won't read it.

Writing is a waste of resources.  Reading that writing doubles that waste.

We are not living in the Age of Reason ... Ours is the Age of Post-Truth Nonsense ... our leaders and institutions driving us down the fast lane towards Idioracy.

Until there are real world consequences for numb nuts, this race to the bottom will continue.