Does the teacher in mcps check his or her school emails at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

My father was in construction - made himself a millionaire in that field. But . . . he always had time for family. When I became a teacher, he was astonished at the work I did just to keep up. And he always told me to make time for myself. When I got married and had kids of my own, he again warned me that work could wait.

I don't know what your problem is, but you need to chill out and learn how to be more of a human being and less of a bitch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

I haven't been "off". I graded exams and projects for over 8 hours each day Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Yesterday and today, I completed legally required quarterly updates for my students with SN and then rewrote the Unit Plan. I also did a mandatory online training regarding bloodborne pathogens. Between Thursday and today, I've read and answered emails as well as initiated emails with students and families. Monday night and last night I created assignments that could be done at home and posted this work on Google classroom so my students wouldn't fall behind. At 8 am this morning, I consulted my subject-alike teacher about whether we should postpone the first test of the new MP.

Guess you and I define lazy differently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

My father was in construction - made himself a millionaire in that field. But . . . he always had time for family. When I became a teacher, he was astonished at the work I did just to keep up. And he always told me to make time for myself. When I got married and had kids of my own, he again warned me that work could wait.

I don't know what your problem is, but you need to chill out and learn how to be more of a human being and less of a bitch.

I agree with your final statement, that poster was a class A bitch-er-roo. But your story is nonsense. Your dad was the boss, as teacher you're not the boss, and you don't have the same luxuries.

[Anonymous]

My experience is limited, but I have never had a teacher respond to an email during non-school hours. I had assumed they couldn't -- i.e. technology didn't allow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

My father was in construction - made himself a millionaire in that field. But . . . he always had time for family. When I became a teacher, he was astonished at the work I did just to keep up. And he always told me to make time for myself. When I got married and had kids of my own, he again warned me that work could wait.

I don't know what your problem is, but you need to chill out and learn how to be more of a human being and less of a bitch.

I agree with your final statement, that poster was a class A bitch-er-roo. But your story is nonsense. Your dad was the boss, as teacher you're not the boss, and you don't have the same luxuries.

Yes, I do. Boundaries are boundaries. I do my job; I do it well. If I feel the need to work extra, I will, and in most cases, I am working more than my required hours b/c that's the nature of the job. But if parents are demanding, and it's MY time with family, I won't jump like a dog when someone whistles.

boundaries, people
Please understand that.


Good, dedicated teachers do more than enough from August through June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

It would have been nice if they did some work-at-home for MCPS teachers. Most of the real world puts in extra hours.

Do you really think teachers only work 6 hour days? Many are there well before school starts and there well after the last bell rings. Their "breaks" are often filled with team meetings, administrative meetings, IEP meetings. So they do put many many hours after they clock out...planning and grading, then planning some more. All teachers I know go above and beyond their pay scale for the good of the students.

I don't help teachers, I help my children. So far (in 9 years)I did not meet any teacher who goes beyond her pay scale for the good of my children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

It would have been nice if they did some work-at-home for MCPS teachers. Most of the real world puts in extra hours.

Do you really think teachers only work 6 hour days? Many are there well before school starts and there well after the last bell rings. Their "breaks" are often filled with team meetings, administrative meetings, IEP meetings. So they do put many many hours after they clock out...planning and grading, then planning some more. All teachers I know go above and beyond their pay scale for the good of the students.

I don't help teachers, I help my children. So far (in 9 years)I did not meet any teacher who goes beyond her pay scale for the good of my children.

Sounds like the problem is your attitude if in all those years not a single teacher met your standard for going beyond the call of duty. They must avoid you like the plague.

[Anonymous]

My son's private is continuing to assign homework assignments which are being collected via online submission and graded even during the school closures. Teachers are communicating with students consistently during the school closure. I guess that's what you get when you do private vs. the union driven public schools. So glad we left MCPS for private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

My father was in construction - made himself a millionaire in that field. But . . . he always had time for family. When I became a teacher, he was astonished at the work I did just to keep up. And he always told me to make time for myself. When I got married and had kids of my own, he again warned me that work could wait.

I don't know what your problem is, but you need to chill out and learn how to be more of a human being and less of a bitch.

I agree with your final statement, that poster was a class A bitch-er-roo. But your story is nonsense. Your dad was the boss, as teacher you're not the boss, and you don't have the same luxuries.

Yes, I do. Boundaries are boundaries. I do my job; I do it well. If I feel the need to work extra, I will, and in most cases, I am working more than my required hours b/c that's the nature of the job. But if parents are demanding, and it's MY time with family, I won't jump like a dog when someone whistles.

boundaries, people
Please understand that.


Good, dedicated teachers do more than enough from August through June.

I don't think you read my post or understood what I said. I wasn't criticizing teachers. Not at all. I was saying comparing being a teacher to being the owner of a construction company is imbalanced. He (your dad) genuinely had more choice and more freedom than you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

It would have been nice if they did some work-at-home for MCPS teachers. Most of the real world puts in extra hours.

Do you really think teachers only work 6 hour days? Many are there well before school starts and there well after the last bell rings. Their "breaks" are often filled with team meetings, administrative meetings, IEP meetings. So they do put many many hours after they clock out...planning and grading, then planning some more. All teachers I know go above and beyond their pay scale for the good of the students.

ALL jobs that are salary put in more than 9-5pm. Stop acting like teachers are the only profession to work after hours. I would be extremely disappointed if my child's teacher couldn't take 5min out of her multiple days off at home to email me back. That is not how the real world works anymore. Most professions don't get lunch breaks, most are driving in snow to get to work, most people work 8hrs and THEN work more on top of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all you teachers are lazy as fuck. You have been off a week and consider yourself off the clock or it is a slippery slope to answer a few emails written by parents? My husband works construction and takes emails, calls, and texts as needed to help the jobs. Sometimes as early as 5am and as late as 11pm. I am a physician's assistant and feel the same way. I check my emails often for patients. Most people in the real world don't work 6hr days and get off weekends, 10+ holidays, winter break, spring break, summers and snow days. How shameful of any of you who can't put in any effort to email a parent back so you can enjoy your free paid days off.

It would have been nice if they did some work-at-home for MCPS teachers. Most of the real world puts in extra hours.

Do you really think teachers only work 6 hour days? Many are there well before school starts and there well after the last bell rings. Their "breaks" are often filled with team meetings, administrative meetings, IEP meetings. So they do put many many hours after they clock out...planning and grading, then planning some more. All teachers I know go above and beyond their pay scale for the good of the students.

I don't help teachers, I help my children. So far (in 9 years)I did not meet any teacher who goes beyond her pay scale for the good of my children.

The PP is not the OP. I am the OP. I never said teachers only work 6hrs but that is what they work at school. Actually, I know elementary school teachers work directly with their students only 4.5hrs a day. They have 70 minutes for lunch/recess. Another 45min when they are at specials. Even if they work a few extra hours, they are still only working 8-9hrs max, and that is generous.

Many jobs work a true 8hr day and then work a few hours more. My husband doesn't work from 5am to 11pm but if an email comes thru, he won't wait 48hrs to return it. Neither would I. How do you justify teachers at home since last Thursday afternoon 48hrs to return an email "if that" because they are off the clock? Teaching isn't an hourly paid job like McDonalds. It is a profession.

[Anonymous]

Well, some of you hate teachers soooo much, keep your brats home and YOU put in the effort to raise and educate your own kids. See how you like THAT!

[Anonymous]

All of you parents who are bitching about teachers -- have you ever done the job? It is very demanding to be running a classroom for 6 hours a day. Try it sometime and you'll see that teachers earn their time off the clock.

[Anonymous]

Most teachers check and respond regularly. But some may not have access to a computer/internet at home. No harm in reaching out and giving it a try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, some of you hate teachers soooo much, keep your brats home and YOU put in the effort to raise and educate your own kids. See how you like THAT!

Nowadays teachers expect parents to do most of the academic teaching at home. Educated parents do an effort every single day to help our children progress, we don't have a whole week of snow days to scratch our bellies.