Trusting the art of blogging has been something that made me stronger mentally in a constructive manner. Honestly, I would not know what would happen to my writing if I didn't discover blogging from my high school friends. I used to sit in front of the computer and blog every day. I try my best to write lengthy but detailed posts about high school life. The level of hormones at the time was amazingly high. Everything seemed to be more colorful than ever. I guess that is what made adolescence great. Recently, I have seen a decline in writing both online and in real life. People's attention spans have dramatically shortened to the point that EVERYTHING seems like a sale pitch.
If you don't catch them in 10 seconds, then your piece or work is just not good enough these days. I refuse to believe that there is lesser value in a blog than in a shorts or video clip. A picture says a lot, but putting thoughts into writing requires a lot more work to be appealing. As an English debate instructor, not only has the 3-year pandemic slowed down academic growth, it has effectively made students and parents to shy away from things that don't seem directly related to "schoolwork". This growing issue has mushroomed to the point where we educators have to regroup and figure out how to dissipate this silly but potentially detrimental shift in attitude. It also does not help that many people are now sending their kids to international schools, often going in with insufficient information and inadequate preparations in both learning discipline and English proficiency. Let's see how far we educators as a collective can take these kids this school year shall we? :)
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