When did the 5 W's get forgotten?

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3. Years ago when schools switched from objective

writing to subjective curriculum.

Tracks back to Writers Workshop, Columbia Teachers college, meant to be akin to therapy journaling for underperforming kids. Backed by big bucks (Gates) and forced on school districts as the ‘new writing’.

No correct way to write. Express your feelings. Tell your story. No grammar or spelling required.

Which always creeped me out as teachers and admins pried into kids lives.

We laughed at teachers who swallowed the kool aid. But we lost.

And now a couple of lost generations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCRWP%27s_Writing_Workshop

TCRWP's Writing Workshop

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project's Writing Workshop was a method of writing instruction for children developed by teacher Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Teachers College, Columbia University.
In October 2023, Teachers College announced it would be closing the Reading and Writing Project and replacing it with a new program, based on new research and criticism received about the program in recent years. Calkins is not the director of the new project, which will be managed by the Advancing Literacy unit.[1][2]

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