Is there a lot of absents on Tuesday ?

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Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

You have time to get on DCUM during work?

They were posting during their lunch, so yes, they have time.

Maybe they could adjust their instructional plans so that students won’t have work over the break instead of posting on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a secondary teacher. I am teaching actual curriculum on Monday and Tuesday of next week. If students are absent, they are responsible for the work they are missing. We don't have time for fluffy, feel-good, filler activities. We have curriculum to cover and I am not slowing down just because it's Thanksgiving week.

Parents who choose to pull their kids out of school next week need to understand that their kids are missing work and assessments and they will be responsible for all of it when they return to school.

I had to double take that I didn't post this. Same exact thing in my classes. I told kids they were responsible for finding the notes on schoology, printing the assignments, and getting them turned in the day they returned.

You sound nice! Let the kids have a freaking break for once!!

They have a five-day break over Thanksgiving.

So many of you are insufferable. If teachers have a "light" day, parents are pissed. If teachers teach a typical amount, parents are pissed. The poor teachers cannot make any of you happy. You are ridiculous.

It's like there are two separate groups of parents, who are forced to share schools because their children are assigned purely by virtue of a real estate transaction.