5 days before quarter ends- no work accepted

[Anonymous]

Teachers contracted hours are also misreported every week to say 40 hours including one lunch break. Many times we can't eat and we do over 60 to 80 hours with double unpaid overtime and admin still bullies us to make us inflate grades and deflate crime reports. It's a clu$t3rfcker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers contracted hours are also misreported every week to say 40 hours including one lunch break. Many times we can't eat and we do over 60 to 80 hours with double unpaid overtime and admin still bullies us to make us inflate grades and deflate crime reports. It's a clu$t3rfcker

What would happen if people started to report actual time worked? Reporting the hours would not make people get paid more, as the job is exempt from overtime/comp time. But it would make clear how much time is actually being worked and, if all teachers made a habit of doing this, would help build the case for raising salaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe teachers are supposed to return graded work within 10 days of the turn in date.

My kid’s AP Gov teacher at Einstein takes at least 20 days to grade anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe teachers are supposed to return graded work within 10 days of the turn in date.

My kid’s AP Gov teacher at Einstein takes at least 20 days to grade anything.

Be thankful they grade. We had one teacher who just rarely did grading and then at the end of the term just stopped and didn't grade the rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe teachers are supposed to return graded work within 10 days of the turn in date.

That is what is supposed to happen. I am pretty good about getting my stuff graded within 48 hours but then again I also have no problem spending 2 hours a day grading after school. A lot of my coworkers understandably are a bit further behind because they don't sacrifice as much personal time and there is nothing wrong with that.

There’s also things like district assessments. For math, my kid has been waiting upwards of 3 weeks for their grade, which is worth 10 pct. Teacher said they graded it within two days but that he was waiting for central office for the grading standards to be assigned to the test score.

[Anonymous]

I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

We are required to have 9 All Tasks(90% of the grade) and like 8 Practice Prep assignments(10% of the grade). Only 2 of these need to be designated as reassessable assignments.

Thats like two assignments a week. If you think completing two tasks in 5 days is too much work then I dont know what to tell you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

We are required to have 9 All Tasks(90% of the grade) and like 8 Practice Prep assignments(10% of the grade). Only 2 of these need to be designated as reassessable assignments.

Thats like two assignments a week. If you think completing two tasks in 5 days is too much work then I dont know what to tell you.

I do think that 2 assignments a week for each of 8 classes, and each assignment being a different random thing is a lot. College is definitely not like that. I think we should have both higher standards and also fewer assignments, because I think the expectations for high grades also leads to a ton of busywork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

We are required to have 9 All Tasks(90% of the grade) and like 8 Practice Prep assignments(10% of the grade). Only 2 of these need to be designated as reassessable assignments.

Thats like two assignments a week. If you think completing two tasks in 5 days is too much work then I dont know what to tell you.

I do think that 2 assignments a week for each of 8 classes, and each assignment being a different random thing is a lot. College is definitely not like that. I think we should have both higher standards and also fewer assignments, because I think the expectations for high grades also leads to a ton of busywork.

I cannot speak for other schools but in my school, and especially in my classes, these assignments are almost exclusively completed in class with minimal expectations to complete them at home. I cannot speak understand that if a student came home with 7 different assignments to complete at home every few days that would be a bit overwhelming. However, with appropriate time management skills, these students should be able to get most of this done in class and whatever is assigned in 3rd period should have little to no effect on what is assigned in 7th period.

[Anonymous]

Late assignments won’t be accepted in college. Tell them to suck it up and stop blaming the teacher because your child is lazy or forgetful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

We are required to have 9 All Tasks(90% of the grade) and like 8 Practice Prep assignments(10% of the grade). Only 2 of these need to be designated as reassessable assignments.

Thats like two assignments a week. If you think completing two tasks in 5 days is too much work then I dont know what to tell you.

I do think that 2 assignments a week for each of 8 classes, and each assignment being a different random thing is a lot. College is definitely not like that. I think we should have both higher standards and also fewer assignments, because I think the expectations for high grades also leads to a ton of busywork.

I cannot speak for other schools but in my school, and especially in my classes, these assignments are almost exclusively completed in class with minimal expectations to complete them at home. I cannot speak understand that if a student came home with 7 different assignments to complete at home every few days that would be a bit overwhelming. However, with appropriate time management skills, these students should be able to get most of this done in class and whatever is assigned in 3rd period should have little to no effect on what is assigned in 7th period.

I apologize for typing my response in the bathroom and not proofreading it before sending. Ignore where it says “cannot speak understand” when it should say “I can understand”.

I wish there was a way to edit posts after the fact

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Late assignments won’t be accepted in college. Tell them to suck it up and stop blaming the teacher because your child is lazy or forgetful.

For some assignments though, it's clear the teacher grades it super harshly the first time around, expecting most kids to retake it. And at my child's school, one of the departments also decided that they won't take points off for an assignment being late (in between the due date and deadline), so that in practice the due date is the deadline (but it shows up as "missing" in between the 2.) I'd actually be very happy to get rid of the whole due date/deadline mess.

Again, I think a lot of this is driven by the expectation for grade inflation. If most kids in each class actually got Bs an Cs, these things wouldn't be an issue, but there's pressure from every corner for near perfect GPAs (which I think also drives the race for the most ECs, since it's so hard to differentiate kids.)

One more thing to add - college will probably be way easier for many of these kids compared to HS. Many college classes do in fact accept late work and most classes are 2-3 days a week, not 5 days a week.

And finally - none of this is the fault of teachers, it's just a silly system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers contracted hours are also misreported every week to say 40 hours including one lunch break. Many times we can't eat and we do over 60 to 80 hours with double unpaid overtime and admin still bullies us to make us inflate grades and deflate crime reports. It's a clu$t3rfcker

What would happen if people started to report actual time worked? Reporting the hours would not make people get paid more, as the job is exempt from overtime/comp time. But it would make clear how much time is actually being worked and, if all teachers made a habit of doing this, would help build the case for raising salaries.

There was an effort by MCEA to track unpaid hours a few years ago. There was a spreadsheet IIRC with prefilled categories. My understanding is that very good data was being collected and the earliest returns helped shape contract negotiations.

I think it is time to bring it back.

Also, my school refuses to pay for coverage for IEP and 504 meetings and issues coverage pay only when a sub doesn’t show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Late assignments won’t be accepted in college. Tell them to suck it up and stop blaming the teacher because your child is lazy or forgetful.

It really depends.

My child (who practices Judaism) had an major assignment due at midnight after fasting and attending services on the holiest day of the religion when no work is allowed. Despite having communicated this with the professor, she was told no exceptions could be made for late submission. In the other course with an assignment due on Yom Kippur, she was told that she could submit her work before midnight the next day.