Why Kids Can't Write

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/education/edlife/writing-education-grammar-students-children.html

Quotes from the link:

“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind,” the memoirist writes.

“Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
By requiring students to learn three types of essay writing — argumentative, informational and narrative — the Core staked a claim for writing as central to the American curriculum. It represented a sea change after the era of No Child Left Behind, the 2002 federal law that largely overlooked writing in favor of reading comprehension assessed by standardized multiple-choice tests. 

The root of the problem, educators agree, is that teachers have little training in how to teach writing and are often weak or unconfident writers themselves. ... fewer than half had taken a college class that devoted significant time to the teaching of writing, while fewer than a third had taken a class solely devoted to how children learn to write. Unsurprisingly, given their lack of preparation, only 55 percent of respondents said they enjoyed teaching the subject.