There are some poor word choices[1], but yes, all in all this 7th grader is definitely writing above grade level. Hopefully his English teachers give him feedback pertinent to his demonstrated ability.
[1] - E.g. "That’s not to say a school’s system is necessarily completely ineffective. Last year, my school had left unblocked the spammy-sounding Unblocked Games 66."
would be easier to understand if re-written as:
"That’s not to say a school’s system is completely ineffective. Last year, my school failed to block the spammy-sounding "Unblocked Games 66.""
I hate this trend because I use em dashes a lot in my writing. Someone tell the AIs to throttle back on them a bit — people might think I'm using AI when I'm not.
I don't understand how people use or got used to using em dahshes? How do you even type them? theres no button for it so are you manually inserting, copy pasting it and why not just use a hyphen - instead of an en dash? Was this taught in schools or is it some form of technical writing?
Shift-Option-Hyphen. I don't know where I picked up the habit of using them. I think back in the day before there were such characters I used double hyphens, but it's been a minute — using the keyboard shortcut is essentially reflexive now.
It's the poor man's semi-colon, because a lot of folks never learned how to use it correctly. Now a lot of word processors automatically turn a double hyphen to the em-dash--and here we are.
