Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 12:51     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Oh my. Why are some of you so insufferable?

Thank you to the few who answered my question the best you could.

I made a few phone calls. I have a contact from the English department of a great university near by who will find a summer teacher for our school! Yay!!

Can’t believe it was that easy!

You’re hired! 🤣
*nearby


Omg all of us SAHMs are gaining employment via this thread! I heard it would be a struggle to get back in, but seems like the market is begging for our return!
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 12:49     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Oh my. Why are some of you so insufferable?

Thank you to the few who answered my question the best you could.

I made a few phone calls. I have a contact from the English department of a great university near by who will find a summer teacher for our school! Yay!!

Can’t believe it was that easy!

You’re hired! 🤣
*nearby
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 12:45     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Oh my. Why are some of you so insufferable?

Thank you to the few who answered my question the best you could.

I made a few phone calls. I have a contact from the English department of a great university near by who will find a summer teacher for our school! Yay!!

Can’t believe it was that easy!


*nearby
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 00:07     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
If anybody cares about their kid learning to write in a sophisticated fashion, I'd recommend that the kid read the New Yorker regularly. There's a wide variety of pieces, including humor writing, reviews, poems, etc. My dad had a subscription lall through my childhood. It really helped me to appreciate different writing objectives. I'd say it was more helpful than most of my English classes.

Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 23:37     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Oh my. Why are some of you so insufferable?

Thank you to the few who answered my question the best you could.

I made a few phone calls. I have a contact from the English department of a great university near by who will find a summer teacher for our school! Yay!!

Can’t believe it was that easy!

What school? My kid could definitely use some writing help.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 20:44     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A nephew of mine whose heart was set on attending one of the best Ivy League schools did not get in. He’s crushed. He had all the necessary scores and grades. He had a wonderful extracurricular activities and a great science project he completed. He was a National Merit finalist. So what went wrong? We think his writing skills were not as strong as they wanted.

Our private school wants to do something about this problem of students having poor writing skills. They are looking for an excellent writing teacher to teach a summer camp for about 4-6 weeks. They have asked me for help in finding one. Any ideas on where I should look?


Lots of laid off Posties out there. Hire one of them.


Journalism is a very specific type of writing that is almost opposite what you need for academic or essay writing. And there's no particular reason journalists would have teaching skills.

Not trying to knock journalists but I truly hate this impulse to decide that whoever you believe to be out of work (journalists, feds, authors) can automatically be a teacher.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 20:27     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Oh my. Why are some of you so insufferable?

Thank you to the few who answered my question the best you could.

I made a few phone calls. I have a contact from the English department of a great university near by who will find a summer teacher for our school! Yay!!

Can’t believe it was that easy!


Bess here to say, I was someone who genuinely answered you and then you showed your true colors with your irrelevant comments and now I'm team Nancy... truly if anyone proved they were insufferable it's you and now Nancy drew has a crew!
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 20:13     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
OP here. Oh my. Why are some of you so insufferable?

Thank you to the few who answered my question the best you could.

I made a few phone calls. I have a contact from the English department of a great university near by who will find a summer teacher for our school! Yay!!

Can’t believe it was that easy!
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 20:05     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:Students need to read real books. They need to write. They need teachers who have the time to give real constructive feedback. They need to accept this feedback. They need to not expect to get an A on everything based on perceived effort.


So true!!!
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 19:57     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also I 100% do not believe OP has been tasked by their kid’s HS in April to find an excellent writer to teach a 4-6 week (!) writing workshop over the summer.


I am so tired of people like you. You're irrelevant. Get lost.

I take that to mean you find OP’s story entirely believable that the HS from which their kid is graduating in 6ish weeks has delegated the task of identifying a writer who will lead an extra-long camp, and most likely need to actually plan it, given that OP doesn’t have a specific length or dates? Even if the goal is to create this for NEXT summer (this summer is ENTIRELY unreasonable; camps have been planned and taking registration for months already), why would a HS task a random parent with this assignment? And if they aren’t a random parent but somehow have some experience in this field (which, I suppose, could either be writing or camp management or both), there is then no reason that a person with experience is going to come crowdsourcing assistance in this task on DCUM.

It’s all beyond believability.

I may be irrelevant (is anyone “relevant” on this site?), but OP is ridiculous.


Nancy Drew has a point ^^


To be clear I meant the Nancy Drew comment with respect! OP's story is not plausible.


I agree with Nancy!

BUT Nancy forgot to mention most of the top private schools already have summer intensives in the form of summer school or summer camp... probably because Nancy was seeing all the other clues in the room... which I guess is to say "I volunteer to be Bess!"
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 19:22     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also I 100% do not believe OP has been tasked by their kid’s HS in April to find an excellent writer to teach a 4-6 week (!) writing workshop over the summer.


I am so tired of people like you. You're irrelevant. Get lost.

I take that to mean you find OP’s story entirely believable that the HS from which their kid is graduating in 6ish weeks has delegated the task of identifying a writer who will lead an extra-long camp, and most likely need to actually plan it, given that OP doesn’t have a specific length or dates? Even if the goal is to create this for NEXT summer (this summer is ENTIRELY unreasonable; camps have been planned and taking registration for months already), why would a HS task a random parent with this assignment? And if they aren’t a random parent but somehow have some experience in this field (which, I suppose, could either be writing or camp management or both), there is then no reason that a person with experience is going to come crowdsourcing assistance in this task on DCUM.

It’s all beyond believability.

I may be irrelevant (is anyone “relevant” on this site?), but OP is ridiculous.


Nancy Drew has a point ^^


To be clear I meant the Nancy Drew comment with respect! OP's story is not plausible.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 19:21     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also I 100% do not believe OP has been tasked by their kid’s HS in April to find an excellent writer to teach a 4-6 week (!) writing workshop over the summer.


I am so tired of people like you. You're irrelevant. Get lost.

I take that to mean you find OP’s story entirely believable that the HS from which their kid is graduating in 6ish weeks has delegated the task of identifying a writer who will lead an extra-long camp, and most likely need to actually plan it, given that OP doesn’t have a specific length or dates? Even if the goal is to create this for NEXT summer (this summer is ENTIRELY unreasonable; camps have been planned and taking registration for months already), why would a HS task a random parent with this assignment? And if they aren’t a random parent but somehow have some experience in this field (which, I suppose, could either be writing or camp management or both), there is then no reason that a person with experience is going to come crowdsourcing assistance in this task on DCUM.

It’s all beyond believability.

I may be irrelevant (is anyone “relevant” on this site?), but OP is ridiculous.


Nancy Drew has a point ^^
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 16:22     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:A nephew of mine whose heart was set on attending one of the best Ivy League schools did not get in. He’s crushed. He had all the necessary scores and grades. He had a wonderful extracurricular activities and a great science project he completed. He was a National Merit finalist. So what went wrong? We think his writing skills were not as strong as they wanted.

Our private school wants to do something about this problem of students having poor writing skills. They are looking for an excellent writing teacher to teach a summer camp for about 4-6 weeks. They have asked me for help in finding one. Any ideas on where I should look?


Lots of laid off Posties out there. Hire one of them.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 16:13     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also I 100% do not believe OP has been tasked by their kid’s HS in April to find an excellent writer to teach a 4-6 week (!) writing workshop over the summer.


I am so tired of people like you. You're irrelevant. Get lost.

I take that to mean you find OP’s story entirely believable that the HS from which their kid is graduating in 6ish weeks has delegated the task of identifying a writer who will lead an extra-long camp, and most likely need to actually plan it, given that OP doesn’t have a specific length or dates? Even if the goal is to create this for NEXT summer (this summer is ENTIRELY unreasonable; camps have been planned and taking registration for months already), why would a HS task a random parent with this assignment? And if they aren’t a random parent but somehow have some experience in this field (which, I suppose, could either be writing or camp management or both), there is then no reason that a person with experience is going to come crowdsourcing assistance in this task on DCUM.

It’s all beyond believability.

I may be irrelevant (is anyone “relevant” on this site?), but OP is ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2026 14:00     Subject: How to improve Highschool students writing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Highschool -> high school
Students -> students'

A nephew of mine whose heart was set on attending one of the best Ivy League schools did not get in. -> My nephew was disappointed not to get into an Ivy. [original is too wordy]


Is this your formal application for the position 🤣


Congratulations, you got a compliment from a stranger on DCUM. Hope that gave you the ego boost you were in need of.