A few years ago, my niece told me they were learning Creative Writing at school. I thought maybe it was some sort of new technique for teaching structure, punctuation and orderly thought.

"Creative Writing" is not the proper term for what they were learning.
All spelling rules were bypassed and there wasn't even an emphasis on the students being able to read what they'd written.

She was in second grade at the time.
What do you think about the possibility of her classmates catching a firm grasp on basic writing/communication sometime during the rest of their years in school?

It's a relief to know she'll be able to skate through grad school with whatever she doesn't manage to unlearn..