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Every English teacher knows the crunch: dozens, sometimes hundreds, of essays stack up, each demanding feedback that is fair, detailed, and timely. Students deserve thoughtful comments, but teachers also deserve to reclaim evenings and weekends.
Think of September like a conveyor belt. The rosters roll out, the assignments load up, and before long, essays are sliding onto your desk in waves: rough drafts, personal statements, messy arguments.
Every autumn, while lesson plans hum along and classrooms settle into routine, another season intrudes college essay season. It arrives abruptly, like a flood you swore you saw coming but underestimated all the same. Suddenly, seniors are desperate to distill seventeen years of existence into 650 words, and teachers, already overextended, are expected to shepherd them through the process with grace, patience, and endless hours of commentary.
The reality is simple but heavy: writing takes time, and grading it takes even more. Administrators know this better than anyone, because they hear it from their teachers every semester. Ms. Lopez, teaching 8th grade in Southern California, once joked she could measure the school year not in months but in stacks of essays. Each pile meant another weekend lost.
Picture this: Friday night, fluorescent light still buzzing above, and Mr. Patel has three choices—call it quits, skim the last dozen essays, or push through until midnight. He usually picks the last one. Not because he enjoys it (who does?) but because he knows feedback delayed is often feedback ignored.
Among the many labours of the modern schoolteacher, few are more time-consuming and paradoxically more essential than the marking of student essays. The diligent instructor, armed with red pen and rubric, longs to offer each pupil the sort of detailed attention that transforms vague thoughts into structured argument. But teaching, unlike philosophy, rarely permits such luxury. Between mounting class sizes and administrative expectation, thoughtful feedback is too often the first casualty.
In an age where technology is rapidly reshaping education, educators face a pressing challenge: how to maintain academic integrity while still leveraging the advantages of artificial intelligence. The rise of AI tools capable of generating entire essays in seconds has understandably led to a growing concern among teachers about plagiarism and academic dishonesty.
The leap from high school to college can be exhilarating—but also academically overwhelming. Amidst thoughts of dorm life, course schedules, and independence, students often overlook one of the most daunting challenges they’ll face: college-level writing.
In the unfolding drama of education and technology, one cannot help but trace a parallel between the introduction of calculators into math classrooms and the gradual integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into English instruction.