Teachers assigning asynchronous work on synchronous days(APS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am throwing the flag on many of these stories. I have two in APS middle and have had nothing like this with either of them. I’m home working in the other room and teachers are working hard. Teaching. Many working late and on weekends to make themselves available to kids. Please stop maligning teachers. Our teachers are great in person and virtual. They are smart, capable professionals who love working with kids. God bless them.

It’s only happened with our emploratory teacher in MS (the one who got caught up in a project st home). She canceled 3 classes.

[Anonymous]

It's the same as being assigned busywork while a sub babysits.

[Anonymous]

I heard about a parent who took a day off. Really. She took the day off. End of story.

Teachers can take days off. In a normal year, they'd either get a sub who assigns busywork or breaks up the class to send to other teachers. Trying to find tech-savvy subs isn't easy so what else should they do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nearly all of my second grader's math classes consist of a 10-15 minute lesson, three problems that go with the lesson in Seesaw, and then 35-40 minutes of Dreambox.

Do you think all of this is the teacher's decision? Districts are pushing these damn apps. In mine, it's Amplify reading and iReady math. The principals go to weekly meetings where the usage totals for all of the apps are posted in the order of which schools used them the most that week. It's like a competition. We found out that the top school was assigning it during class so my principal is now pushing us to use it during class. Um, nope but I do have it in my official lesson plan and have it ready to push out in case she is visiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard about a parent who took a day off. Really. She took the day off. End of story.

Teachers can take days off. In a normal year, they'd either get a sub who assigns busywork or breaks up the class to send to other teachers. Trying to find tech-savvy subs isn't easy so what else should they do?

Then they (we) should say, “I’ll be out on X date. Our school district does XYZ in these cases.” No glimpses of ski resorts, no mentions of Disney, and if there is no sub, we need to make sure parents know that it wasn’t just our doing, that it’s a district or school matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard about a parent who took a day off. Really. She took the day off. End of story.

Teachers can take days off. In a normal year, they'd either get a sub who assigns busywork or breaks up the class to send to other teachers. Trying to find tech-savvy subs isn't easy so what else should they do?

Then they (we) should say, “I’ll be out on X date. Our school district does XYZ in these cases.” No glimpses of ski resorts, no mentions of Disney, and if there is no sub, we need to make sure parents know that it wasn’t just our doing, that it’s a district or school matter.

If I'm puking in the toilet all night, I'm not going to tell parents I will be out. That's for my school to figure out. That's what admin gets paid the big bucks to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard about a parent who took a day off. Really. She took the day off. End of story.

Teachers can take days off. In a normal year, they'd either get a sub who assigns busywork or breaks up the class to send to other teachers. Trying to find tech-savvy subs isn't easy so what else should they do?

Then they (we) should say, “I’ll be out on X date. Our school district does XYZ in these cases.” No glimpses of ski resorts, no mentions of Disney, and if there is no sub, we need to make sure parents know that it wasn’t just our doing, that it’s a district or school matter.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nearly all of my second grader's math classes consist of a 10-15 minute lesson, three problems that go with the lesson in Seesaw, and then 35-40 minutes of Dreambox.

Do you think all of this is the teacher's decision? Districts are pushing these damn apps. In mine, it's Amplify reading and iReady math. The principals go to weekly meetings where the usage totals for all of the apps are posted in the order of which schools used them the most that week. It's like a competition. We found out that the top school was assigning it during class so my principal is now pushing us to use it during class. Um, nope but I do have it in my official lesson plan and have it ready to push out in case she is visiting.

Thats definitely how it feels some times.

[Anonymous]

Another day, another teacher assigning asynchronous work (videos) in her place today. So ridiculous, my child gets surprised when a teacher shows up to teach live/virtually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another teacher assigning asynchronous work (videos) in her place today. So ridiculous, my child gets surprised when a teacher shows up to teach live/virtually.

which school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another teacher assigning asynchronous work (videos) in her place today. So ridiculous, my child gets surprised when a teacher shows up to teach live/virtually.

It’s sounds like you are having a specific problem with a particular teacher- if it’s a real problem, let admin know but this isn’t happening across the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another teacher assigning asynchronous work (videos) in her place today. So ridiculous, my child gets surprised when a teacher shows up to teach live/virtually.

I call BE. If this is really happening, name the school. You haven’t said the grade. You won’t be outed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another teacher assigning asynchronous work (videos) in her place today. So ridiculous, my child gets surprised when a teacher shows up to teach live/virtually.

I call BE. If this is really happening, name the school. You haven’t said the grade. You won’t be outed.

Sounds like BS.

Even if it were true, it's ONE teacher FFS. No need to VILIFY all teachers for that.

[Anonymous]

I agree. Back off the teachers. They are working so hard. They didn’t create the pandemic. They are adapting like the rest of us or got a sample size of 14 APS middle school teachers I my house. Not a single issue with one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard about a parent who took a day off. Really. She took the day off. End of story.

Teachers can take days off. In a normal year, they'd either get a sub who assigns busywork or breaks up the class to send to other teachers. Trying to find tech-savvy subs isn't easy so what else should they do?

Then they (we) should say, “I’ll be out on X date. Our school district does XYZ in these cases.” No glimpses of ski resorts, no mentions of Disney, and if there is no sub, we need to make sure parents know that it wasn’t just our doing, that it’s a district or school matter.

If I'm puking in the toilet all night, I'm not going to tell parents I will be out. That's for my school to figure out. That's what admin gets paid the big bucks to do.

And that is fine. No mention of Disney World or a ski resort in sight, presumably.