<p>scualum, your summary was very interesting. Now we need teacher comments - their perspective on how things have changed. Your cache would make a good seed for a study.</p>
<p>I actually had an English teacher that my father also had. She stood before the Sr. year ‘most challenging’ top English class and, in answer to one classmate who asked why we weren’t made to write more, said “you can’t get these kids today to write”. Ticked me off - I though she should assign writing rather than griping about our work effort. This was over 30 years ago now…</p>
<p>I was really disappointed in the amount of writing my girl was asked to do in HS, but she never took the honors/AP classes.</p>