1 graded assignment this month

[Anonymous]

My child who is a junior has an AP English teacher who has graded ONE assignment for the month of January input in ParentVUE. This teacher is notorious for having so few assignments, Dec had 4 assignments total. I keep thinking she will do better, but that doesn’t seem to be true.

It’s hard for my child to get a good grade or good feedback when this is the case.

I am new to the school system in the US. Is this something to complain about? If so,who would I complain to? Also forgot to Mention this is a magnet program.

[Anonymous]

Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

You seem to know. So how much free time did the teachers have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

You seem to know. So how much free time did the teachers have?

Not 8hrs. Most will tell you that on a good week they got 45mins-1 1/2 hrs each work day. That time is supposed to cover responding to emails, planning, grading, collaborating with colleagues, copies, IEP updates, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

You seem to know. So how much free time did the teachers have?

Not 8hrs. Most will tell you that on a good week they got 45mins-1 1/2 hrs each work day. That time is supposed to cover responding to emails, planning, grading, collaborating with colleagues, copies, IEP updates, etc.

45 min each work day is the contractually provided time. Anything more probably means there was a meeting or team planning canceled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

Teacher here, and thank you for understanding the workload.

I would add that thoroughly commenting on a 5 page paper takes closer to 15 minutes, so 90 papers would represent over 22 hours of grading. Since I teach 140 students, it can take me 35 hours of grading time to get through a stack of essays.

I receive 45 minutes a day at work, and it’s usually spent answering emails and updating paperwork. All grading is done at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

Teacher here, and thank you for understanding the workload.

I would add that thoroughly commenting on a 5 page paper takes closer to 15 minutes, so 90 papers would represent over 22 hours of grading. Since I teach 140 students, it can take me 35 hours of grading time to get through a stack of essays.

I receive 45 minutes a day at work, and it’s usually spent answering emails and updating paperwork. All grading is done at home.

And we should also add this was just three classes. The teacher is still teaching two other classes likely representing at least one other prep.

[Anonymous]

It is HARD for English teachers. The homework is not easy grading like math.

If you are confident in your English, grade your kid's work yourself. If not, look around for a friend or family who can help.

Tell your kid to find a buddy and grade each other's work for readability and to get ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child who is a junior has an AP English teacher who has graded ONE assignment for the month of January input in ParentVUE. This teacher is notorious for having so few assignments, Dec had 4 assignments total. I keep thinking she will do better, but that doesn’t seem to be true.

It’s hard for my child to get a good grade or good feedback when this is the case.

I am new to the school system in the US. Is this something to complain about? If so,who would I complain to? Also forgot to Mention this is a magnet program.

NP here. Can someone please answer this person query? This thread has drastically derailed of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child who is a junior has an AP English teacher who has graded ONE assignment for the month of January input in ParentVUE. This teacher is notorious for having so few assignments, Dec had 4 assignments total. I keep thinking she will do better, but that doesn’t seem to be true.

It’s hard for my child to get a good grade or good feedback when this is the case.

I am new to the school system in the US. Is this something to complain about? If so,who would I complain to? Also forgot to Mention this is a magnet program.

No this is not something to complain about. A decent magnet program should be assigning work of more length and complexity, and that work should be graded carefully. Both those things lead to fewer assignments and more time for feedback to be returned. If your kid doesn’t have the maturity for that don’t complain just move him back to the mainstream. The semester is a good time to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child who is a junior has an AP English teacher who has graded ONE assignment for the month of January input in ParentVUE. This teacher is notorious for having so few assignments, Dec had 4 assignments total. I keep thinking she will do better, but that doesn’t seem to be true.

It’s hard for my child to get a good grade or good feedback when this is the case.

I am new to the school system in the US. Is this something to complain about? If so,who would I complain to? Also forgot to Mention this is a magnet program.

NP here. Can someone please answer this person query? This thread has drastically derailed of course.

Frankly, I don’t see OP’s problem. An AP English teacher managed to grade 4 assignments on December. That’s one a week. That’s a teacher who deserves an award, not one who needs to “do better” as the OP states.

Multiple teachers have explained English teacher workloads. It is relevant since it explains to OP why there aren’t tons of grades.

[Anonymous]

The county requires no fewer than 9 All Task assignments per marking period and no fewer than five Practice/Prep assignments. However, we received guidance that because of the snow days, we are allowed to have fewer than 9 All Task assignments this marking period.

No matter what, no individual grade should be worth more than 25% of the final grade.

So, look at the number of grades and see if they align with the policy. If not, you could complain if you want.

[Anonymous]

Synergy had a huge hissy fit last week. People who sync grades rather than directly entering found many were erased.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

You seem to know. So how much free time did the teachers have?

Not 8hrs. Most will tell you that on a good week they got 45mins-1 1/2 hrs each work day. That time is supposed to cover responding to emails, planning, grading, collaborating with colleagues, copies, IEP updates, etc.

45 min each work day is the contractually provided time. Anything more probably means there was a meeting or team planning canceled.

I didn’t get that 45 min in the last two days. I had coverage first thing in the morning twice and meetings in the middle of the day.