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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends who are high school English teachers and college writing professors have been talking for several years now about the complete decline of basic writing ability they are seeing in students. They say it is abysmal. [/quote]

Because their elementary and middle school colleagues are NOT TEACHING writing or grammar or vocabulary. And they have the children read sub-par literature.

So that’s why. [/quote]

I think it also has to do with the abandonment of learning content as an educational goal. If you’re not learning a lot of detail about a subject, what is there to write about? I don’t disagree about the lack of traditional English instruction, but the lack of writing assignments in content-based classes like science and social studies may be the bigger problem. Like I’m not sure how my kid is going to learn to write a competent essay when the assignment is “write a letter about how your friend can make change in the world” vs an essay on Harriet Tubman. [/quote]

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