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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't you teach your kids to write?[/quote]

Oh my God pandemic has shown me I can’t teach my children anything [/quote]

Exactly. It's fairly shocking to me how cavalier people are, thinking they can just teach their kids everything. I have a graduate degree and got exactly two B+'s during my entire academic career, and yet I have little confidence that I can teach my daughter the fundamentals of core disciplines (math, writing, science, etc.). I can supplement around the edges, but teaching a child to write isn't supplementing around the edges; it's educating my child.

I am not a teacher, and I think it's an insult to teachers to assume that, as a well-educated adult, I can easily replace what a teacher can provide. [/quote]

Actually you can, it just takes time that you likely don’t have.  Some people who struggle with writing either have trouble with the mechanics, or don’t have a grasp of logic and can’t use it to assess/critique text, OR they don’t have a strong knowledge in whatever subject they’re writing about and “don’t know what to write.”[/quote]

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