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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I have a theory about why the quality of writing has gone down. I have a bright teenager that is incredibly well-informed regarding national and international events, politics and history. He reads all day long. However, the vast majority of his reading is on the internet. When I was his age, I read constantly, as well, but I was reading books written by great authors. I would have loved to have the immediate access to information that he has, but the quality of the writing that he is reading on a daily basis is just not the same. My kid can produce a decent paper, but he hasn’t developed an “ear” for a well-turned phrase.[/quote]

In addition, teaching writing is very labor-intensive.[/quote]

I came on here to say this. I had a 12th grade English teacher that would write comments all over our papers. We could resubmit them as many times as we wanted within the quarter for full credit. On occasion, I'd resubmit something 2-4 times until it was good enough for the grade I wanted. We also did timed essay exams. This was just a regular old public school in suburbia. The process of the two required analyzing sentence structure, paragraphs, and the whole composition. If I'd only had that level of writing instruction throughout, BUT I cannot imagine how much grading she did. Knowing what I know now she must have had absolutely no personal life outside of teaching. Nowadays, high school English teachers are required to have two grades per student per week. There's no way to fulfill the two pieces of writing a week obligation with 6 classes of 25 students each unless you give them separate grades for notes, outlines, topic sentences, supporting detail sentences, etc rather than just a finished essay. As a result, kids get a lot of fluff grades in high school English in order to produce grades for the grade book. It was also completely overlooked for the past twenty years as it wasn't tested in NCLB. Teachers were told not to spend time on it.

-Former public teacher[/quote]

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