Writing a 5-6 page paper in middle school never taught anyone anything, but it did take away time that could have been used constructively. Is this seriously s

Writing a 5-6 page paper in middle school never taught anyone anything, but it did take away time that could have been used constructively. Is this seriously something that a HN user would write? I'm sure that I could find a single example of a research paper assignment "teaching" a middle schooler something. I bet I could find a million of those examples too.