>why are we still making students learn such an obviously obsolete skill? Just because a machine can generate an essay of questionable quality with a fair chan

>why are we still making students learn such an obviously obsolete skill? Just because a machine can generate an essay of questionable quality with a fair chance of containing hallucinations making it unusable for many fields of human endeavor doesn't mean that writing is no longer a useful pedagogical tool. Learning to write is a part of learning to think.