No grades in the grade book

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By HS I never followed up with teachers. That was my kids’ job and they usually seemed to know how they were doing in classes. If they didn’t and I thought it was important, I had them follow up with their teacher. It seems extreme for a parent to be contacting the teacher absent special needs.

You sound like a checked out parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By HS I never followed up with teachers. That was my kids’ job and they usually seemed to know how they were doing in classes. If they didn’t and I thought it was important, I had them follow up with their teacher. It seems extreme for a parent to be contacting the teacher absent special needs.

As a HS parent I am somewhere in the middle of this. I regularly check my kids grades but then I tell her areas of concern and have her advocate for herself to her teachers. I wont email the teacher about a missing assignment but that doesnt mean i am ignoring it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By HS I never followed up with teachers. That was my kids’ job and they usually seemed to know how they were doing in classes. If they didn’t and I thought it was important, I had them follow up with their teacher. It seems extreme for a parent to be contacting the teacher absent special needs.

You sound like a checked out parent.

DP. That’s not a checked out parent. That’s a parent teaching their children to advocate for themselves. That’s an important life lesson. If you continue to step in and fix things for them, how will they learn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By HS I never followed up with teachers. That was my kids’ job and they usually seemed to know how they were doing in classes. If they didn’t and I thought it was important, I had them follow up with their teacher. It seems extreme for a parent to be contacting the teacher absent special needs.

You sound like a checked out parent.

DP. That’s not a checked out parent. That’s a parent teaching their children to advocate for themselves. That’s an important life lesson. If you continue to step in and fix things for them, how will they learn?

+ 100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By HS I never followed up with teachers. That was my kids’ job and they usually seemed to know how they were doing in classes. If they didn’t and I thought it was important, I had them follow up with their teacher. It seems extreme for a parent to be contacting the teacher absent special needs.

You sound like a checked out parent.

DP. That’s not a checked out parent. That’s a parent teaching their children to advocate for themselves. That’s an important life lesson. If you continue to step in and fix things for them, how will they learn?

+ 100

+200 my mom let my brother get bad grades in HS math and he had to drop out of the honors section to regular. He learned his lesson and is now an ivy league PhD research scientist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By HS I never followed up with teachers. That was my kids’ job and they usually seemed to know how they were doing in classes. If they didn’t and I thought it was important, I had them follow up with their teacher. It seems extreme for a parent to be contacting the teacher absent special needs.

You sound like a checked out parent.

DP. That’s not a checked out parent. That’s a parent teaching their children to advocate for themselves. That’s an important life lesson. If you continue to step in and fix things for them, how will they learn?

If your kid will advocate great but the teachers not grading don’t respond either.

[Anonymous]

This is a common problem. Get your kid to follow it up with the teacher and failing that you should contact the Assistant Principal in charge of academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a common problem. Get your kid to follow it up with the teacher and failing that you should contact the Assistant Principal in charge of academics.

Yes, it’s a common problem. It will remain a common problem until teachers are given work time to get grading done.

I do recommend reaching out to administration, though. That will help them remember how big of a problem this is. Keep in mind administrators don’t have papers to grade, so they have likely forgotten what it’s like to take that load home each night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a common problem. Get your kid to follow it up with the teacher and failing that you should contact the Assistant Principal in charge of academics.

Yes, it’s a common problem. It will remain a common problem until teachers are given work time to get grading done.

I do recommend reaching out to administration, though. That will help them remember how big of a problem this is. Keep in mind administrators don’t have papers to grade, so they have likely forgotten what it’s like to take that load home each night.

Our admin are useless but its the teachers responsibilty to grade and if they cannot be doing it, its on them to talk to their admin and get help, not the parents. If you want students to follow the rules, you need teachers to as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a common problem. Get your kid to follow it up with the teacher and failing that you should contact the Assistant Principal in charge of academics.

Yes, it’s a common problem. It will remain a common problem until teachers are given work time to get grading done.

I do recommend reaching out to administration, though. That will help them remember how big of a problem this is. Keep in mind administrators don’t have papers to grade, so they have likely forgotten what it’s like to take that load home each night.

Our admin are useless but its the teachers responsibilty to grade and if they cannot be doing it, its on them to talk to their admin and get help, not the parents. If you want students to follow the rules, you need teachers to as well.

Teachers are speaking up. They are also quitting. The workload is BEYOND crushing.

If parents are angry, then parents should also speak up. I’m in full support of that. I’ve been in this field a very long time, long enough to realize that teachers’ voices are often ignored and that we are considered disposable. If we push back, we are often pushed out. Parents have more of a voice.

But until teachers are given work time to get work done, I don’t know how this will change. It’s absolutely absurd that teachers are required to work literally DOZENS of extra hours a pay period.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like time to start a class action when admin force us to work double time and our union is complacent to make a contract and then happy to break it and side with admin to fire us. What the heck is the point of having a contract or a union for that matter. They take our money and fight us with it.

[Anonymous]

I’m a HS teacher and my grades are up to date. But I’m sitting at my kitchen table on Sunday morning getting my grading done. There is almost no time to grade during the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a HS teacher and my grades are up to date. But I’m sitting at my kitchen table on Sunday morning getting my grading done. There is almost no time to grade during the school day.

Same at my house. I’ve been grading since 6am and have several hours more before I feel I can take a break.

I’m going away for a weekend soon and I’m panicking. I don’t know how I’ll get my work done without the safety net of Saturday and Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Normal, I would. Teachers make all kind of excuses but it’s absurd.

150 essays at 15 minutes each takes 37.5 sustained hours of grading. That’s 37.5 extra hours of unpaid work to get done in 10 days.

I don’t call that an excuse. I call it an explanation. And I agree it is absurd. It’s absurd that we consider that workload acceptable.

It is absurd! But it’s also how things work in most jobs. It’s an American work expectation problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Normal, I would. Teachers make all kind of excuses but it’s absurd.

150 essays at 15 minutes each takes 37.5 sustained hours of grading. That’s 37.5 extra hours of unpaid work to get done in 10 days.

I don’t call that an excuse. I call it an explanation. And I agree it is absurd. It’s absurd that we consider that workload acceptable.

It is absurd! But it’s also how things work in most jobs. It’s an American work expectation problem.

It’s one of the reasons driving the teaching shortage. The clear expectation now is 60+ hours a week or you are a “bad” teacher who doesn’t get her grades done. And for new teachers, they are pulling even more hours getting used to a new curriculum and doing it for the lowest teacher pay.