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i am a writer because of teachers, because of the positive reinforcement i got from them. But between standardized testing and parental pressure to teach students something they can use, writing as a discursive, creative exercise really falls by the wayside. The national writing project says that since common corps came into practice, the kind of writing from the heart has been almost completely obliterated in most schools. And what's called writing is, ah, there were three main causes of the american revolution, a, identify and describe. It's like three sentences that call for no creativity or no personal thought at all.
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