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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Also my understanding is that 5th, 8th, and 3nd of course no longer require actual essays like they used to
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learnin...ol-writing-resources[/quote]

8th grade test still requires an essay. However, they are piloting a reading/writing test for 8th grade for next year. Not sure how much writing will be on it.
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My point. There is no writing these teachers need to teach. So there is less writing to teach. And honestly chat gtp can probably give feedback in the margins if teachers don’t want to do it. [/quote]

Most teachers do not have summers off as they work multiple jobs. They do not make enough money to take a two month vacation.[/quote]

here's a great response from a teacher. Something about jobs and vacations in response to feedback and SOLs. Really following along.

Look there is no requirement for teachers to write in margins or whatever. You aren't getting demerits for teaching by students, parents, or your principal. You can't have it both ways where mom and dad don't even care if their kid attends class but yet somehow have such high standards to think you are so deficient by not writing comments all the time in the margins. Teachers need to grade work and they need to assign work. A short summative response is all that is done in private school (even very expensive ones around here) and all that is necessary in public. It's just in private they have more assignments with this feedback. My kid has gone through K-12 with less than 10 feedback summary statements and "margin" writing all 13 years. Maybe two a year in the upper grades. Somehow all those teachers have stayed in their job. This is a non-issue for teachers. [/quote]

I’m not sure what this response means. That teachers don’t leave a lot of comments, and they don’t get fired for being lazy? Is that the gist?

If so, it certainly doesn’t reflect my experience. Leaving feedback takes a significant amount of my time at home each week. I leave a ton, and I make students reflect and respond to my feedback. It’s meaningful work. It’s also one of the reasons I’m quitting. It’s too labor intensive to do this job correctly.[/quote]

This person gave a response about the summer when it had nothing to do with the topic. They couldn't stay on topic. That was the first part about the response.

The second response yes, there is no one requiring them to do this work and 90% of teachers are not doing this so they can call martyr all they want and say this is the only way to do the job but 90% of teachers have figured out how to do this job without doing this and there is no feedback they are getting from admin students or parents to do it so it's all in their head that this is "necessary to do the job right". No other school even private will require this so I guess they are out of teaching for good because of their own standards, not the schools kids or parents.[/quote]

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