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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My students who come back to visit me their freshman year of college largely report that college is much easier than their high school experience, so I think they're well prepared.

I also think the experience (especially in elementary) is very non-standardized. My own child has been writing 5 paragraph essays since 3rd grade, so the anecdote about being overwhelmed by an essay is odd to me.[/quote]

My now 9th and 11th graders, who were in AAP, barely wrote anything through middle school and I have been surprised at how little they write in HS. [/quote]

Wow.  My kids write ALL THE TIME.  Have done so all along.  You should complain to the administration if yours aren’t.[/quote]

Which schools have kids write ALL THE TIME? My now-high schoolers barely wrote anything in elementary school (post-covid, everything was on google slides). Barely any writing in middle. Even humanities APs don't have the amount of writing I was expecting.[/quote]

All of my kids who had a certain ELA teacher in middle school wrote every week in 7th grade ELA, and they also wrote a lot if they had two of the 8th grade ELA teachers. Those three ELA teachers had students respond to writing prompts constantly and then the teachers left comments.

They also wrote quite a bit in history and civics.

We didn't have the experience several posters have described with everything being on Google slides. There was a lot of paper used in both middle and high school. [/quote]

How long ago?
The issue is the pandemic and the requirements for a shutdown preparedness plan, being ready for virtual learning [/quote]

My kids are now 21, 18, 16, 14, and 12. Only the oldest was in middle school before the pandemic.[/quote]

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