It is a melancholy object to those who write through the great English classroom and travel the school, when they see the hallways, the connectors, and rooms crowded with students of the English study, followed by three, four, or six essays, all in sub-par grades and importuning every student for an alms. These students, instead of being able to stimulate their mind and express their individualism, are forced to employ all their time in writing and perfecting their helplessly terrible prose writing, who, as they improve, either bear no fruitful use or simply fade from relevance from the students life in all.
"I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection." (Swift).
I propose that the teaching of writing an accepted method of prose in school be discontinued. Prose writing, while indeed provides students a method of writing, should not be the sole purpose of learning in the English classroom. That students are able to communicate their ideas on paper clearly and concisely is a given, and therefore should not be further adulterated with by the teachings of an English classroom. Rather, English classroom's should teach students how to communicate their thoughts creatively and give students their own voice, rather then the cookie-cutter "accepted" way of writing prose. Through the teaching of creative communications, students will be able to find their own voice, rather than the voice of their high school English teacher. Only then will the students be able to succeed in college and the real world, where they are valued for their own ideas and voice, rather than the voice the managed to learn to perfect in the high school classroom. I do hope that my thoughts will be duly considered, as I see a bleak future for this generation of young people if a change in not made in the English classroom surely and swiftly.
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