Reply #160: You bet. Plus in my experience in working in the schools, writing is just not taught well anymore

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at the elementary level. The kids have learned to hate writing and it shows. Take notes in HS? Forget it. If they were asked to text it they probably would but otherwise none of them have the patience for writing and they're required to do so little of it. The teaching of writing, the product and revisions at any age take more time than most teachers have to give. Testing you know, can't have those pesky teachers being unaccountable.

Not even poetry gets much and kids like to write poems.