Teachers do you check your email over the summer (esp. now in August)?

[Anonymous]

I do, I think if you're going to assign any substantial amount of summer reading or work or whatever, then you should be a little bit available. And I usually work the summer orientation for 6th graders so we have to be planning for that anyway.

[Anonymous]

I check once a week because that’s just me and we also have mandatory summer assignments. I don’t begrudge my coworkers who don’t. It’s summer break.

When my children were in high school, I made sure they reviewed summer assignments before the teachers left for summer, just in case they had a question.

[Anonymous]

Email the principal instead

[Anonymous]

Well I was thinking of putting my child in public school. I founds the contact for questions on myschooldc which was the assistant principal. I emailed him and the reading specialist with my question and no response. When I called. She said “Send me an email”. I’m like I did. Long story short, if they’re not responsive with a simple question, I’ll pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious.
My kid has to email a quick question to a teacher from last year regarding class placement this year.
The teacher is great and my kid and he were on very good terms last year.
Before he sends an email, I was wondering if teachers commonly check their school address on a regular basis over the summer (at least now in August).
The teacher is young and probably email savvy.
Does your school address dump into your personal address or vice versa?
Thanks so much!

Do you have email from your work go to your personal email and personal phone? Why is this an expectation for teachers? Particularly over the summer?

Yeah, this is a weird burn. I’d guess well over 50% of DC professionals check & respond to work email daily, if not more frequently, including on weekends, holidays and vacations.

[Anonymous]

I have emailed a number of teachers in my PTO capacity this summer — usually trying to fulfill requests they put in or find out their preferences for something they have indicated they care about, so I assume I’m going to get responses from basically anyone who ever responds to such emails. I would say I get replies within a week from 80% of our DCPS ES teachers. Ironically, our AP who is technically working is someone who has entirely blanked me repeatedly, even one where the principal asked her to reply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious.
My kid has to email a quick question to a teacher from last year regarding class placement this year.
The teacher is great and my kid and he were on very good terms last year.
Before he sends an email, I was wondering if teachers commonly check their school address on a regular basis over the summer (at least now in August).
The teacher is young and probably email savvy.
Does your school address dump into your personal address or vice versa?
Thanks so much!

Do you have email from your work go to your personal email and personal phone? Why is this an expectation for teachers? Particularly over the summer?

Yeah, this is a weird burn. I’d guess well over 50% of DC professionals check & respond to work email daily, if not more frequently, including on weekends, holidays and vacations.

No one should be expected to check or respond to work questions outside of work hours. Not during evenings, weekends or vacations. I know there's a few professions that are required to be "on call", but most are not and should not be. I am a teacher and I did check my work email about 2x a week because I wanted to, over the summer. But last school year, I stopped checking emails after I got home at night and not on weekends either. I love my job, but I was much happier with some boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious.
My kid has to email a quick question to a teacher from last year regarding class placement this year.
The teacher is great and my kid and he were on very good terms last year.
Before he sends an email, I was wondering if teachers commonly check their school address on a regular basis over the summer (at least now in August).
The teacher is young and probably email savvy.
Does your school address dump into your personal address or vice versa?
Thanks so much!

Do you have email from your work go to your personal email and personal phone? Why is this an expectation for teachers? Particularly over the summer?

Yeah, this is a weird burn. I’d guess well over 50% of DC professionals check & respond to work email daily, if not more frequently, including on weekends, holidays and vacations.

No one should be expected to check or respond to work questions outside of work hours. Not during evenings, weekends or vacations. I know there's a few professions that are required to be "on call", but most are not and should not be. I am a teacher and I did check my work email about 2x a week because I wanted to, over the summer. But last school year, I stopped checking emails after I got home at night and not on weekends either. I love my job, but I was much happier with some boundaries.

It's just the reality of many, many professional jobs. I'm not saying teachers should fall in that category, I'm saying the PP who posted this as some kind of "gotcha" at posters on this site is living under a rock if he doesn't think many would answer "of course."

[Anonymous]

I check mine weekly. Mostly to delete the spam so I don’t have to spend time doing it when I go back. If a student emailed me I would probably respond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious.
My kid has to email a quick question to a teacher from last year regarding class placement this year.
The teacher is great and my kid and he were on very good terms last year.
Before he sends an email, I was wondering if teachers commonly check their school address on a regular basis over the summer (at least now in August).
The teacher is young and probably email savvy.
Does your school address dump into your personal address or vice versa?
Thanks so much!

Do you have email from your work go to your personal email and personal phone? Why is this an expectation for teachers? Particularly over the summer?

Yeah, this is a weird burn. I’d guess well over 50% of DC professionals check & respond to work email daily, if not more frequently, including on weekends, holidays and vacations.

No one should be expected to check or respond to work questions outside of work hours. Not during evenings, weekends or vacations. I know there's a few professions that are required to be "on call", but most are not and should not be. I am a teacher and I did check my work email about 2x a week because I wanted to, over the summer. But last school year, I stopped checking emails after I got home at night and not on weekends either. I love my job, but I was much happier with some boundaries.

It's just the reality of many, many professional jobs. I'm not saying teachers should fall in that category, I'm saying the PP who posted this as some kind of "gotcha" at posters on this site is living under a rock if he doesn't think many would answer "of course."

And frankly, that's just sad.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher and I end up checking at least twice a week. I have only been teaching for 3 years so I spend some time in the summer preparing new material and thinking about how to improve my courses

[Anonymous]

I check mine daily because I’m waiting on updates from admin.

[Anonymous]

I check mine whenever I think about it, but I NEVER respond because I don't want to set the expectation that I work for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I check mine whenever I think about it, but I NEVER respond because I don't want to set the expectation that I work for free.

You wouldn't respond to a kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have emailed a number of teachers in my PTO capacity this summer — usually trying to fulfill requests they put in or find out their preferences for something they have indicated they care about, so I assume I’m going to get responses from basically anyone who ever responds to such emails. I would say I get replies within a week from 80% of our DCPS ES teachers. Ironically, our AP who is technically working is someone who has entirely blanked me repeatedly, even one where the principal asked her to reply.

My AP didn’t even respond to questions asked in email during the school year so I’m not surprised about the summer.