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Teachers cause kids to write in a structured, detached manner. Students should incorporate their own lives into their writing

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Kids should stop waiting to write about themselves until something important happens to them because their lives are already worthy of attention.

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Young people have something to say and shouldn't refrain from telling their stories because of their age

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y'all are special snowflakes and should write personal essays

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Students are taught to separate their personal lives from their writing and this is bad, their devotions actually matter.

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Students are taught to separate their personal lives from their writing and this is bad, their devotions actually matter.

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kids are all writing in a passive, detached voice and writing like robots. he worries for the future of students and wants them to be like "yeah!!! my life is super duper interesting and here's why!!"

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Students need to understand the importance of their own thoughts and unique perspectives, which they should include in their own writing

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Student's should realize their own peculiarity, and write about it.

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Teachers and students should value the unique lives and experiences of students.

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Students are growing up being told by teachers that they should not write about their own experiences, which causes them to be unable to write about themselves when they are asked.

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Students need to learn to combine interests with writing 

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Students need to learn to combine interests with writing 

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Students are being taught to write in a way that separates their own perspective from their writing, which is a problem that needs to be fixed

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Kids should start writing about themselves more

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Korb, a writing teacher, wants his students to express themselves (and do it in a grammatically correct way)

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lots of quotes/allusions to famous writers and books; examples he's seen as a teacher; anecdotes from his own life.

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anecdotes, diction appeals to young people, call to action

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Feeling passionate about something is not wrong especially in school writing

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Feeling passionate about something is not wrong especially in school writing

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Talks about specific scenario of being in class and the student says "We can write with I?"- this is relatable because a lot of students can relate to not being able to use I in their writing. Also he includes support from other notable writers to back up his argument that the experiences of young people matter

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students do not take their own lives seriously enough, and teachers do not value the lives of their students enough

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Many of his students are taught to write without voice or personal interests. Korb wants students to realize it is okay to write with personal pronouns and anecdotes and all that schnazy stuff.

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Korb sees the problem with students every year because he teaches them

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feedback from students in class as well as seeing them outside of class

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feedback from students in class as well as seeing them outside of class

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Students are being taught to write impersonally about topics not relating to themselves. Korb wants students to write about their own peculiarity

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He reads hundreds of student essays and finds them soul crushing. He wants students to express their peculiarity in their writing.

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He reads hundreds of student essays and finds them soul crushing. He wants students to express their peculiarity in their writing.

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Teachers should allow students to write with personal interests rather than being robots trained to write about things hyper-analytically

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his own experience with "northern florida" and his writing about something that happened to him at young age

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his own experience with "northern florida" and his writing about something that happened to him at young age

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The message of the piece is for students to express their experiences in their writing and incorporate their lives into their school work.

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"The rally was held because Congress was lobbied and guns were purchased."

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Familiar anecdotes, allusions

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he wants students to look around at what baffles them and embrace their peculiar themselves, especially in writing

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Parkland Shooting - you don't have to experience that to be peculiar. Very relevant

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Parkland Shooting - you don't have to experience that to be peculiar. Very relevant

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experience as teacher, reading students' writing, and experience with own self, discovering peculiar self

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anecdotes