No feedback on writing in elementary school

[Anonymous]

My 4th grader has only gotten written feedback on her writing assignments twice this quarter. The assignments get graded and I can see the As online. Often time, she doesn't really seem to have earned them as the writing is grammatically incorrect, she's not fully answering the question, there's limited punctuation, etc.. I go over the assignments with my daughter once a week and help her edit her work--I let the teacher know I was doing this because my goal is to just make her a functional writer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader has only gotten written feedback on her writing assignments twice this quarter. The assignments get graded and I can see the As online. Often time, she doesn't really seem to have earned them as the writing is grammatically incorrect, she's not fully answering the question, there's limited punctuation, etc.. I go over the assignments with my daughter once a week and help her edit her work--I let the teacher know I was doing this because my goal is to just make her a functional writer

Oops- I meant to ask if this was your experience as well?

[Anonymous]

You won’t get it in middle school or high school either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You won’t get it in middle school or high school either.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You won’t get it in middle school or high school either.

This. The teachers just have too many students in MS and HS. There has been very little (if any) meaningful feedback. Sometimes my kid will go in person to talk to her English teacher and get feedback that way.

In ES, they never correct for spelling or grammar, etc.

If you want your kid to become a good writer, you'll have to look elsewhere. Either get a tutor, or sign the kid up for a writing camp/class over the summer. We did this the summer before 8th grade and found it helpful.

[Anonymous]

Mine gets feedback, but it's weird. Once the feedback was "the story wasn't realistic enough" because, apparently, the teacher didn't agree that the character in DC's story might reform after his stint in jail and lead a blameless life in the future. Often it's "this was great" when to me it is really not that great.

But it's far more than DC ever got in previous years.

[Anonymous]

NP here. What writing camp did you sign your child up for?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You won’t get it in middle school or high school either.

This. The teachers just have too many students in MS and HS. There has been very little (if any) meaningful feedback. Sometimes my kid will go in person to talk to her English teacher and get feedback that way.

In ES, they never correct for spelling or grammar, etc.

If you want your kid to become a good writer, you'll have to look elsewhere. Either get a tutor, or sign the kid up for a writing camp/class over the summer. We did this the summer before 8th grade and found it helpful.

[Anonymous]

Or diy of course. Almost everything important at mcps is basically diy unfortunately. Learned that the hard way when my kid’s K teacher couldn’t be bothered that my DC could barely write and was guessing at words mid year.

[Anonymous]

McLean Summer Edge Writing Intensive Camps

https://www.summeredge.org/program/intensive-programs-lower-school-writing/

[Anonymous]

Do you know how long it would take to give written detailed on every essay for every student?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how long it would take to give written detailed on every essay for every student?

Yes, but shouldn't it still be done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how long it would take to give written detailed on every essay for every student?

Yes, but shouldn't it still be done?

When? And no, it is not necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how long it would take to give written detailed on every essay for every student?

And yet somehow in the past it was done. Homework was also graded and corrected. Boggles the mind. Guess time was slower then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how long it would take to give written detailed on every essay for every student?

And yet somehow in the past it was done. Homework was also graded and corrected. Boggles the mind. Guess time was slower then.

Nah. Teachers just got tired of doing so much work off the clock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how long it would take to give written detailed on every essay for every student?

And yet somehow in the past it was done. Homework was also graded and corrected. Boggles the mind. Guess time was slower then.

Teachers weren't bogged down with the mindless BS they have to do now. I had one planning period this week to myself. One. I called a parent and graded a few things. I didn't have time to write any lesson plans so I will spend hours on it this weekend. My mom used to teach and she never wrote a lesson plan. That's what the teacher's manual was for. She'd flip the page and teach the next lesson. She did this for every subject. One spelling test per week and an occasional math/science/social studies test. She wasn't chasing down student assignments and calling parents all of the time. If the kid didn't hand it in, they got a zero. She didn't need to document evert attempt to contact the parent. She didn't need to create retakes and grade them. My mom walked into school 15 minutes before the kids and left 15 minutes after the kids. Nothing was done at home.