Everyone writes in school, I assume. Not everyone learns to write well, in fact I suspect that most do not.

> Everyone writes in school, I assume.

Not true unfortunately. You would t believe how many illiterate or near illiterate kids are in high school.

I'm essentially a professional writer at this point. Certainly I learned a lot from technical courses in school and working professionally in technical roles but, at this point, a lot was writing for newspapers and other publications.

Everyone learns to carry plates while growing up. There's a lot more to being a good waiter than just writing down orders and carrying plates. And there's a lot more to being a good writer than just knowing how to write sentences.

If you can't carry the plates all of the other stuff stops mattering..

Good writer is a qualification that could mean millions or the top 5.

> Everyone learns to write in school.

This is like saying everyone learns math in school. It's technically correct, but only if you ignore the vast difference in skill between the average person and (e.g.) an accomplished novelist.

> Everyone learns to write in school.

Check out studies of adult functional literacy. It's, uh, not great.