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The problem is how those essays are graded. In some cases the teacher just count the number of pages and skim the text.

One of my friends once submitted an essay where the introduction and the conclusions were coherent, but all the text in the middle was just unrelated garbage. It's an extreme case, but in many cases if the extremes and the subtitles are fine, the quality of the middle is not so important.

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Writing essays is certainly more useful if there's helpful feedback given, but the exercise is useful in and of itself. I don't think the fact the bad teachers exist is "the problem".

Yeah this is more my point. Teachers should be carefully pouring over students' essays, but they aren't paid enough to do so

I know some recently-unemployed Kenyans with relevant work experience who could be hired cheaply to assist the overworked teachers.

(BTW, it's "poring" not "pouring".)

That's an interesting idea.

I wonder how easy it is now for Western high school teachers to outsource things like lesson planning or grading tests to lower-cost countries? Startup idea: build a marketplace like that. There has to be a market for it.

For essays certainly would be good, could even be better If multiple people read it and give independent feedback.

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