Disorganized HS
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Anonymous
| DC's high school seems very disorganized. Their class schedule was totally wrong, activity bus route not available or made public even though it started today, teachers don't email back, back to school night was barely advertised until the day before. It's discouraging. |
Anonymous
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Any teacher that does not email back in 48 hours you email them again and copy the Principal and the counselor.
No response after another 24 hours you make an appointment will all of them. advocate for your kid. |
Anonymous
You do realize that high school teachers have over 150 students and very little time, right? And we are bombarded with emails all day, yet we are given little time at work to respond to them. I can get 15 in just one class period alone. My first chance to respond is usually in the evening after my own children go to bed. That’s when I open up my laptop and work through the backlog from the day. You can quickly escalate if you want. That’s your right, of course. But it isn’t going to take away my workload or make it any easier to respond to you. |
Anonymous
Your excuses are half the problem. |
Anonymous
| OP this is reason number 532,053,423 that people put their kids in private schools. |
Anonymous
Name the school, OP. Saying this without naming the school doesn’t help. |
Anonymous
They aren't excuses. You have no idea what the workload is. |
Anonymous
You call it excuses. I call it an explanation. If you haven’t taught, you don’t know the overwhelming, crushing, mind-boggling responsibilities a modern teacher faces. The PP is suggesting no-prisoner, nuclear escalation if an email isn’t addressed in 48 hours. Teachers are not magicians. We can’t create time. Many of us already give our students more time than we give our own children. |
Anonymous
| As a HS teacher I will always respond to emails by the next morning, even it’s just to check in and let them know I need additional time to research the situation. |
Anonymous
That's great problem-solving. As a teacher, I thank you. |
Anonymous
It can be both… We can respond in a timely manner while simultaneously acknowledging how that might be challenging for a teacher. I posted above. I respond every day, too. But it’s usually around 10pm because I don’t get chances during the day. And the PP’s suggestion to escalate immediately isn’t reasonable. It took my doctor 2 weeks to get back to me with biopsy results she already had on hand. I didn’t create havoc. |
Anonymous
My experience is most hs teachers never respond, even after multiple attempts over 6 weeks. Cc-ing admin does nothing, they ignore emails too. |
Anonymous
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Op here- also there is a staff member listed as the dual enrollment coordinator for the mc program on the school website- but when I ask her questions about it, she says she has no oversight over the program nor does anyone else at the high school- so there is no one on the high school side to answer questions about it.
They are also missing pictures for main staff members on the website. |
Anonymous
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Out the school, OP.
None of the multiple MCPS elementary, middle and high schools (plural) my kids attended were ever remotely that disorganized. This needs to be brought to the attention of the listserv of your school, if it's exists, to get others parents to pressure MCPS too; and go up the chain and contact whoever is superior to the school Principal. |
Anonymous
What’s the point of starting a thread to complain about your kid’s high school but refusing to name the school? |