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So we got an e-mail from the parents' organization for the high school my daughter goes to.
Parents had requested that the teachers actually grade homework and send feedback instead of simply dumping pages of homework on them without giving the students any idea if they had grasped the material or not.

The principal response (and this is more or a less a verbatim quote): We did a test run. A teacher took a chemistry essay for 30 students. He had to download, print out, correct then scan and upload all 30 and it took him 7 hours."

First of all: Isn't it a teacher's JOB to make sure kids learn?!

Second: My response was: Dagnabbit... my horse and buggy just can't seem to keep up on the Autobahn!

I can#t believe that the teacher did not have the work sent in electronically, use the standard revision techniques and send them back.
If someone complains that they could cheat and not write it themselves: a quick google /wikipedia search will unearth collusion and you can ask them to sign a statement that it was all their work.

Really? Are we stuck in 1990?