https://happinessishereblog.com/the-limitations-of-learning-to-write-at-school/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:56:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.7 https://happinessishereblog.com/the-limitations-of-learning-to-write-at-school/#comment-138505 Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:56:54 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=9477#comment-138505 So true! I was excited for high school because I would be able to write in pen (wow, what a privilege!). And now in schools creative writing isn’t creative- you draw a diagram of HOW the story goes (in my primary school English class, we had to draw that diagram every lesson. And if your story doesn’t fit the rather generic diagram, it’s marked wrong), then the teacher tells you WHAT to write about, and then you spend 5 weeks editing a 50 word story, and then you forget about it. Pointless. Not to mention you’re told exactly how to construct paragraphs. Creative writing isn’t creative anymore and non-fiction writing is either boring or not even touched upon. Any other form of writing is completely neglected. On top of that, in year 3, my teacher told us to edit all of our writing with this colour-coded editing “technique”. The stupid thing about it was that you had to trace over every capital letter (to make sure you wrote a capital), amongst other things. And the teachers told us that we had to make at least one correction of each colour in our writing. This was tedious, showed how little faith they had in our writing ability, and I also remember deliberately making mistakes and “correcting” them so I wouldn’t get in trouble for not correcting my writing “well” enough. They would say ‘you must have made a mistake for that colour somewhere, go back and correct it.’ And finally, if your writing isn’t neat (we also had handwriting books) or if you dared make a mistake (the nerve!) you would be scolded and then forced to rewrite everything. And this wasn’t just a bad teacher, this was every teacher over a long period of time. And if you’re thinking “yeah, but schools have changed since then,” let me put this into perspective: I’m in year 8, and the experiences I’ve recounted are from primary school and my past two high school years. Sorry for writing a novel, I’m just really frustrated with school right now. This beautiful blog is keeping me sane, as my parents are refusing to pull me out. I hope I can turn that around and finally leave school.

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