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Originally Posted by polly

Actually nowadays for the local state grammar school pupils do not do story or any free writing. They do however have passages where they have to pick out the spelling, punctuation and grammatical mistakes.

That’s a pity because getting pupils to write stories exercises their imagination as well grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Compared to being creative, finding someone else’s mistakes is easy.

Maybe that is one of the reasons why modern youth is so destructive (not all of course)? They haven’t learned to create, just destroy.