AI School Report - Ok or not Ok?

No this is absolutely not true at all. That's like saying a surgeon who smokes is bound to be a terrible doctor. It may seem true for the first millisecond you hear it, but there's no correlation between the two.
It could very well be that the teacher is a far better one as she clearly is effective at using her time, and IT, and is therefore better at planning lessons and marking books. She is not failing her students- report writing is one small part of teaching. I actually take a lot of care with my reports and often get complimented on them- my friend/colleague does not (he uses AI even though we're not meant to!). He's just as good a teacher as I am.

That should her picked up on during proof reading. We had to proof read other teachers reports before they were signed off by SLT. I regularly had to remind people to change names. They might start off calling someone Olivia but then drop a Chloe in mid-way. It’s just because they have copied and pasted.
I probably did it myself at times.

I worked in an independent with Saturday school. I had the same number of classes as I have in every state school I’ve worked in. The classes were much smaller. I thought fewer children.

No, they won’t.
The state school teacher will have the same number if classes, but each class will be 30+.

And in a state school each class is 30+ and they have the same number of classes. I’ve worked in both state and independent. Report writing in a independent, despite being more frequent, is less onerous.

did you raise with the teacher?

I don't mind if a teacher copies and pastes. Anyone who has been doing it for a few years must have seen it all anyway, so they should have a comments bank. What did annoy me last year was getting the report with the wrong name in the comments. No one else in the class had that name either, so it must have been badly copied from a previous year. Bet they would have marked kids down for that sort of thing!

perhaps the op’s experience of this particular teacher would indicate professional and complex sentences are not something to be expected from him / her

Eh!?
"The opening statement was long and very professional written, lots of complex language and descriptive words."

Teachers are professionals.

At my primary school we are definitely expected to write full-length personal statements (no statement banks, A1 or drop-down options) about each pupil in our class, approximately half a side of A4, and adhere to a high standard of written English.
You make it sound as if basic professionalism somehow marks your child's teacher out as a cheat.

You just get cracking on that marking 🤔

DD’s are quite personalised and detailed, but she’s in primary and there are 20 kids for each teacher so not the load that subject teachers have in secondary. I do enjoy them though, there is some standard stuff that I imagine is copy and pasted because it would be ridiculous to write it all out again. But there is a lot in there.

I actually wouldn’t mind bullet points against the curriculum so I know where she’s succeeding and where she’s failing so we can work on anything that needs to be improved. And a behaviour or need to know box. I don’t really need filler. Just a checklist would be great.

I remember getting the two line reports, never particularly helpful tbh.

Sorry teacher tired here…
Let me make it clearer - 45 mins each way.
Must get on now - I have 5 ISP’s to write. You know another task a teacher does in their own time… Honestly the job is endless… My bow is literally wearing thin now - I’ve had to play my violin so often today! What’s your favourite tune? I’d love to dance to it…

these teachers aren’t leaving the profession left right and centre

so i’ll take a punt that when turnover is as low as it is at my son’s school… the teaching staff are pretty satisfied with the status quo

my son goes to a top public school and his reports are very very evidently personalised and detailed and very helpful and 3x a year

What a waste of teacher time and resources! Quite pointless in so many ways too.

I'd rather teachers spent those hours (which if genuinely lengthy, personalised, detailed and termly must add up to dozens of hours) on teaching my child day to day.

I really hope those poor teachers aren't having to do all that writing in their own time, outside of school hours.

the school you teach at is a 90 minute commute away?

so you returned? @Gladtobeout since the thread you started celebrating leaving the profession and job hunting? 🤔

that is crazy, because if you used the resources you would have more time to support and help the students to understand the concepts!

@greenandgreener a voice message would be great...my school are very 'backward thinking' though 🤦‍♀️ We are not even allowed to use websites like Twinkl or Grammarsaurus to get resources from! We have to 'school brand' (which means 'make our own in our own time' 😵‍💫)

Here's to retirement- I'm counting the years! 🤣

I actually like the written reports as they are lovely to keep - I actually cried when I read my oldest school report in reception, and the teacher was so happy we liked them, when a couple of us said we cried she said ‘well that’s the aim’ 🥰🙈. We do have a lovely school. I’m sorry both parents and pupils are such an inconvenience to some…I always go above and beyond for my customers at work…part of our ethos as a small company. My only solution is maybe teachers should be paid more? I don’t know 🤷‍♀️

@twentysevendresses goodness that is crazy and insane! I'm so sorry you have to go through it. It must be absolutely mind numbing as well! I just wonder if parents would be better off with a half an hour dictated voice message or voice report or something instead. Congrats on getting through them this year. Here is to them to getting shorter and easier in the future!!!

Ah, not marking but always lots of planning to do at the weekend. It was the school summer fair today, so I did the hour and half drive there and back, so I could help for a few hours!
Hang on! Just going to play a tune on my violin.

@greenandgreener god I wish ours were one paragraph long! Each one is 6 pages. We have to do an introduction paragraph (Ollie is a lovely, comminicative member of Kingfisher Class with a wonderful sense of right and wrong' etc...about 6 or 7 sentences. Then a paragraph for every subject (including PSHE). A paragraph about 'the wider curriculum' which includes homework, extra curricular clubs (and we have to talk about each of the clubs in detail and what the child brought to/got from it). We then have to conference each child and write up the conference (which takes ages, as we have to meet them all in our lunchtimes and get their views, in order to write this paragraph, eg Ollie's everlasting memories of being a member of Kingfisher Class have been.... He has learned that... He wishes to... etc!)

Then we have a paragraph with targets to work on (1 per core subject and a 'personal target') with in depth ideas for parents to support these targets, such as websites, games, books etc.

The final paragraph is a summary and 'my fondest memory of Ollie is the time when...(and we give a personal anecdote or two), plus the usual 'good luck in Year X, keep shining your light' or whatever your school motto is!

It's a LOT!! With photos illustrating each aspect! On the second page we add all the end of year data (attainment/progress stuff) and highlight a bunch of stuff on a grid about readiness for learning (there's loads of criteria and we highlight which is applicable to that particular child).

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

My school reports listed each subject, the grade, the effort, and “What could this child do to improve in this subject?”.

My maths report in year 4 read
”Maths, D, A, brain transplant”.

@twentysevendresses I'm a bit confused how each one can take an hour. I mean good on you for putting the effort in, but for our school they are just about a paragraph. How long are yours? Surely you know your students well enough to know their basic strengths, weaknesses and how they get on in class to be able to rattle off a paragraph or two? If I thought about my colleagues, for example, I would be able to do one for them in about 15 mins tops. So an hour per report seems a little odd to me. Not judging just curious.

I used, in the bad old days, to have to handwrite reports. I found a way of photocopying the set/year/group/work studied etc which were unnecessarily time consuming, but I did try at least to say something relevant about each child. It was sometimes a problem to paraphrase 'very chatty in class and doesn't concentrate' but I usually managed it...