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The Art of Writing: An Interview with William Stafford.

Q: Since you are a widely traveled lecturer, panelist, and reader before many groups of teachers, what is your assessment of how writing is being taught? A: I think the feeling in our time right now that there is a lapse of standards is having a disastrous effect on writing because it's stiffening the illformed convictions of outsiders about what has to happen in a writing class, and they are imposing upon teachers a set of accountability goals that are cluttering up the process. I think that's part of it. So, there are hazards in mistaken assessments of what should happen in a writing class and I feel them all around me. Wherever I go, I have discussions with teachers if I have an opportunity (and I usually do) about what's happening. And even if they will enter into this free and easy communication with me as a friend, which they will do, they have this feeling that with their students they have to be on a different kind of level. It's really strange to me that we can't see that in a family where you are receptive, you have a lot better communication than in a family in which you are waiting to rap someone over the knuckles who makes a mistake in what they say. Well, we've talked of this about our kids: you've got to listen to them. They'll say all sorts of dumb things, sure, that's human. But you'll stop the stream of discourse if you leap in there and you impose standards, and especially if you begin to stiffen and begin to feel competitive with other teachers. You know, how are they [students] going to do on the test scores? I think it's a disaster.