Teacher won't email back

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Anonymous wrote:"Catering to parent emails" when the parent is trying to help the child get the work done should not be seen as a burden. They're literally trying to help you teach their kid. It's not like the parent was complaining about random stuff.

This should be handled by the kid, including the consequences of lookung at that zero until the end of the term when the teacher enters in late work

It has been handled by the kid and the kid was ignored!!

The teacher ignored your student speaking to her in person?

Yes. Brushed them off with a "I'll check" (go sit down) type gesture. But she never got back to child and child doesn't want to pursue in person further.

Have your child email the teacher in a polite way to ask. After that second attempt BY YOUR CHILD, it may be appropriate for you to email the teacher directly.

OP here. I am sorry if this has been missed in my account. Child messaged the teacher by email, it was ignored. So child spoke to teacher and was brushed off. Then child followed up again with a message and again, this was ignored. Parent emailed teacher 3x and never got an answer. I came here asking for what to do next. And all the crazy teachers jumped down on me. Child doesn't want me to escalate because they're afraid of retaliation since teacher has a rep of being "scary".

"All the crazy teachers jumped down on me"

Did your child actually expect the teacher to stop what she was doing in class right then...stop instruction, stop everything, so that she would look up the assignment right then? Seriously? "I'll check" means she will check...at some point. Not then. But in the middle of classes. Not between classes. She's actually busy with tasks that are more important.

Coach your child to brainstorm when it might make the most sense for your child to ask to meet 1-1 with that teacher. Ask for 5 minutes of her time.

The teacher did not "ignore" your child or blow her off. She didn't have time to respond to a non-urgent question, and whenever she asked in class it wasn't at a time that they teacher could check right then. "I'll check" (at some unspecified time in the future) IS a legitimate response.

Yes this unhinged parent actually expects that to happen. Her child should be the only focus or "she will escalate!" When OP or her child want something, the teacher better do exactly what OP wants, when she want it In the span of TWO weeks the teacher has been pestered with 5 emails about a YouTube assignment that probably isn't worth that many points that has been submitted.

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1 "My student has emailed teacher twice about a missing assignment (2 weeks ago). Teacher didn't reply. Student talked to her in class and then submitted the work." So the student emailed two weeks ago, a few days go by and then the students talks to the teacher and submits work. So that is probably around 7 to 10 days ago. The work was late. If the work weren't late then it wouldn't have showed up missing, and then submitted after talking to the teacher.

2. Then OP adds, "I just want to make sure that my student has submitted the correct assignment and isn't confused as to what needed to be turned in."

Now the story has changed. The latest version is:

3. "OP here. I am sorry if this has been missed in my account. Child messaged the teacher by email, it was ignored. So child spoke to teacher and was brushed off. Then child followed up again with a message and again, this was ignored. Parent emailed teacher 3x and never got an answer."

Notice the change between #1 and #3. First At first OP says "student talks to teacher and submits work". Then she later claims the teacher explained, "I'll check". Those two statements together don't make sense. That couldn't have happened in one conversation. Now she claims "child spoke to teacher and was brushed off".

This is why teaching is so frustrating now. There are so many unhinged parents who completely change the story by leaving out details and changing details as time goes on to make them seem sympathetic and to make the teacher seem horrid.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this a real thread or comedy? Teacher here. I have not laughed this hard in a long time.
So many snarky posters and this includes you, OP.

My advice - just give up on this assignment. If it was a YouTube video assignment, it sounds relatively minor. Who cares? Keep moving forward

I understand you might not think this particular assignment is important, but the current environment for college admissions is incredibly competitive. It’s not just about one assignment—it’s about maintaining the kind of grades necessary to even have a shot at schools these days. For example, in Virginia, you need above a 4.0 GPA just to be competitive at in-state schools like UVA and Virginia Tech, which is crazy.

I think part of the issue is that colleges, especially Ivy League schools, haven’t made an effort to expand their acceptance rates. Personally, I believe their rates should be over 50%, and they could do that by expanding campuses and using online courses to reach a larger student pool. Technology has opened up so many opportunities for scalable education, and at a minimum, in-state schools should be leading the way in making higher education more accessible. There should be a mandate that schools must expand their capacity and maintain a 50% acceptance rate, or they risk losing state funding. The pressure on students would be far less intense if we saw more of an effort to expand these opportunities.

Please read the whole thread. OP wrote, " This is MS (not HS)." There are state schools you can attend with a 50% attendance rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher is a dud.

Or is amazing and has very different priorities...like, planning great lessons. Helping kids in crisis. She's gonna catch up on late work every other Friday night, if there's time. Maybe. Because it's not as important as 1,000
Other more pressing things

She's teaching through YouTube!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher is a dud.

Or is amazing and has very different priorities...like, planning great lessons. Helping kids in crisis. She's gonna catch up on late work every other Friday night, if there's time. Maybe. Because it's not as important as 1,000
Other more pressing things

She's teaching through YouTube!!!

Huh? Who is teaching through YouTube?

-teacher up on a Saturday morning, answering emails

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OP here- teacher still has not emailed me back. DC has also emailed her again and she has not replied to him. It's now been 4 weeks of multiple attempts.

DC is anxious and this is leading to complete refusal to do anything for that class. I need to set up a conference but how can I with a teacher like this?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here- teacher still has not emailed me back. DC has also emailed her again and she has not replied to him. It's now been 4 weeks of multiple attempts.

DC is anxious and this is leading to complete refusal to do anything for that class. I need to set up a conference but how can I with a teacher like this?

How is that going to change or help anything.

Go through the office to set up a conference. (Sorry if that's been mentioned, I can't click through all of the pages)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here- teacher still has not emailed me back. DC has also emailed her again and she has not replied to him. It's now been 4 weeks of multiple attempts.

DC is anxious and this is leading to complete refusal to do anything for that class. I need to set up a conference but how can I with a teacher like this?

I'm going to go on ahead and assume the teacher is not refusing to email you back. I suspect she is not receiving your emails. Call the office, tell them the email address you are typing in and ask if it is correct. If it is, ask to speak with an administrator to see what is going on. Something isn't right. Maybe you have the wrong email, maybe the system is screwy, maybe the teacher is on leave, who knows.

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Sometimes teachers don’t respond.

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Does this teacher have a common last name? Mine is Davis and I get at least 3-4 emails per week intended for other Davis employees in my organization.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here- teacher still has not emailed me back. DC has also emailed her again and she has not replied to him. It's now been 4 weeks of multiple attempts.

DC is anxious and this is leading to complete refusal to do anything for that class. I need to set up a conference but how can I with a teacher like this?

Seriously?? This is ridiculous. The problem is obviously with your child.