Teaching in schools

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I'm the grandmother but I like to hear an explanation from a parent or maybe a teacher.Mine is just a question for personal satisfaction,I don't mean to be rude to anyone and I do appreciate the hard work that teachers do.
I've seen grandchildren's writing,I am talking 9,8,7year olds.It seems the way they teach is to let the child write as they think it should be written.Good idea for a begining.But the parent is not allowed to correct them.So the wrong spellings carry on.Today I recieved a beautiful letter from my granddaughter of 8 and I could hardly read it.Can anyone explain the logic behind this or give me a link so I can look it up myself.Thanz....

But the parent is not allowed to correct them

This would not be normal advice anywhere, it must be specific to your GD's school, or their parent has confused the advice.

In school, spelling and grammar is corrected by the teacher, and students themselves are taught to review, proofread and correct themselves.

Obviously it's all in an appropriate manner - you don't strike through everything that's wrong - and over-marking spelling/grammar on a piece of writing where the goals are different is not done, but it's certainly not "not allowed to correct".

Take it up with your grandchild's parent?

Most of what you have said is complete nonsense, I'm assuming U.K. though. Where are you?

Very poor practice if this is really happening.
Children should be praised for "trying" but shown the correct spelling so that errors don't become fixed.

Not normal advice unless the children are new to the language.

I teach year 3, so 7 and 8 year olds, the same age as your daughter. It’s a school where we get a lot of children who have a low starting point when they come into reception.
We do have an excellent spelling scheme in place.
I have very few children, only three in my class, who have writing like you describe. The rest spell well, with average attaining children making one spelling error in, say, about fifteen words. Even then, the error is easily readable and makes sense phonetically.
The children with writing that is difficult to read have special needs. Is your granddaughter on the Special Needs Register?