writing also enables a clearer form of communication.....despite being often obfuscated by use of overextensive vocabulary in conversation.

Good writing can turn a fairly good RP post into a great one, and that's reason enough for me to continue paying attention in English class.

Depends on which high school you go to. My previous high school the reading and writing average was so low that they assigned books like 'Wayside school' as reading material...and enjoy the autobiography stuff while you can. Soon the reality of the 1000 word research paper will ruin your pleasant writing experiences....

Edit: Hey Dragonsbane, I love putting people in conundrums by creating lavishly convoluted passages......

Like I said, I screwed up the point of the thread. why is reading left behind when writing is taken to the extreme.

Today all spelling problems can be solved by word, and creative the creative writing is so scripted that you have to remember all of your life.

Example: thankfully in north carolina the writing test is only every three years, but during these three years you have writing half of every day. In fourth grade, I had to write a 45 page autobiography(seriously).

Math is used all the time when balancing check books, making buildings and physics.

edit:holy crap! I edit my post and half of it gets deleted

You're in 8th grade, and you're complaining about the amount you have to write now? Well then I will say good luck in highschool (unless 8th grade is highschool where you live... which then I'll have to say good luck in late highschool/university).
In university you will get a novel on monday, and they will expect you to read it, AND return a 5-page essay on Friday of the same week. That's just an average class assignment... not one of the major ones.

Anyways, YES it is all neccessary! I remember when I was in grade 8, and me and my friends always talked about how so many things in school were bullshit, and not needed. Some people kept that belief, and now dey are teh talking, typing liek i am at now. And they probably won't really take part in a deep discussion. While you and your friends can discuss theories on quantum physics, and the unexplored laws of deep space, some other guys will talk like "Yo dat was da schiznick, check out dat teacher's ass yo, i'll do her!" Trust me, if you're the first one, you'll get much farther in life.

And knowledge in school isn't just about how much money you will make in a career (though a lot of it is about that). But it's also just your day to day knowledge which upgrades your personality. We as mankind are striving ahead and searching for more and more knowledge. Because of our short lifespans, we must enlighten the new ones of our kind to keep up with man's hunt... otherwise every cycle of birth will be over and over again, trying to figure out the logic of how to cut stones and hunt deer. See what I'm saying?

EDIT: I saw your last post. Spelling errors cant bee solved buy programes like Word.
And if we rely on machines to do the thinking for us, we won't go very far as mankind. Sure we can build machines to make lives easier for us, but if we don't pass on our knowledge to our next of kin, they will rely completely on what we built for them. And things will turn into a mess.

Both are used just as much as the other. If we were missing one or the other, society would never have become what it is today, and we most certainly couldn't be talking to each other right now. Arguing that either is more important is an exercise in futility.

I haven't had to write a huge research paper like that yet(thank god), despite being a Junior. I hope I never have too. *shudder*
And while spell checker is useful, it doesn't catch everything.

HoP, do you have disgraphia? If you do and you can prove it, you can gain access to a computer to type up your essays rather than writing them by hand. I did this (my handwriting is hard to read under the best of conditions, and in any case concentrating on it detracts from the fluency of my writing) and scored a 730 on the writing SAT II. This also works for the AP tests.

Wait, what? on the same day? how is that possible? you only have a 45 minute period to do that.
but really will you have to write a 5 page essay in 45 in the real world

A. maybe 5page works in note form
////////////I. Like this
//////////////II. but really now

-bulets possibly?
-used to be spoken later?
-you usually would have a night to do that
-but you'd be more grown up and less ADD then
-I am just 13 and have not a taste of what you have to do later in life
-but my dad has a high up job in IBM and I never see him write
-he has like five conference calls per day
-but he takes frequent naps to

Some schools have different class systems...I had a block schedual that had only 4 classes a day, and they were 1 and 1/2 hours long.

yeah, my High School does fairly well on the reading/writing exams, so we get to do lots and lots of cool stuff. I was in Advanced English last year, so I got to experience first-hand the horrors of 1000 word research papers...

who doesn't? ;)

*GASP* Finally, a forum that converses on topics that are somewhat relative to the outside world! MY WORLD IS NOW COMPLETE!! *Hugs all members of forums* Erhem, anyways, this kid is bitching about something completely practical and useful in everday life. Writing is relative to reading, whilst reading is relative to learning and learning=money, happiness, job, skills, babes and respect (well, maybe not the last two). Math is great and such, but math only covers the *bum bum bum* Mathematical universe. Sure, it's used in all sorts of jobs, but compared to the universe opened through writing, math is plain boring! This may be my opinion, but when was the last time you saw some dude bring a hot chick to a scenic view and while the sun sets and casts a euphoric glow upon her glorious features causing the man to run his hand through the strands of loveliness that cascade her neck and shoulders, saying: "Baby, my geometic figures require attention. Take y and relate to x for solution." This scenario results in nothing but the girl leaving, and the guy retiring to a lonely life of permanent masturbation. So please, give your hand a DIFFERENT hobby, learn to write. (Wow, that was rather long and quite unneccessary, but it sure looks cool.)
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