Two of my kids’ 3 teachers won’t be in tomorrow

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Mondays are still a complete waste of time. Notice no teaching actually happens. You can list your Monday plans all day. Kids are not learning on Monday. Full stop.

If kids are not learning, how is it a waste of time. Don’t log in. If any of you think it takes 40 hours of week to learn that is the problem. In a regular year, Kids are only actively being taught at most 3 hours per day anyway! And learning is even less time.

We don’t log in. Haven’t since December. Couldn’t tell you what happens on a Monday. We’re never there.

Your lazy azz hasn’t logged in for 4 months and you think you get to say what is or isn’t happening in those sessions? You have no clue, you admit you don’t log in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Mondays are still a complete waste of time. Notice no teaching actually happens. You can list your Monday plans all day. Kids are not learning on Monday. Full stop.

If kids are not learning, how is it a waste of time. Don’t log in. If any of you think it takes 40 hours of week to learn that is the problem. In a regular year, Kids are only actively being taught at most 3 hours per day anyway! And learning is even less time.

We don’t log in. Haven’t since December. Couldn’t tell you what happens on a Monday. We’re never there.

Your lazy azz hasn’t logged in for 4 months and you think you get to say what is or isn’t happening in those sessions? You have no clue, you admit you don’t log in!

Well my lazy ass actually never logs in because I’m an adult and not a helicopter parent. Clearly we have missed nothing since December so yeah, nothing important is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Would you mind sharing when this work got down when kids were in the building 9-3:40 5 days a week? Now it’s 9-2:20 4 days a week. There are literally 12 fewer hours a week kids are with teachers now. When did teachers do planning pre Covid?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They probably took a day off if they’re coming back from somewhere ... which anyone with time off is allowed to do

Typically APS doesn't allow teachers to take personal days (or even sick days) adjacent to a holiday because it results in sub shortages.

Sick days? How do they handle that if teachers are legitimately ill?

My understanding is that principals were highly skeptical of anyone taking such sick time. I'm sure some teachers tried to call in, but it was very very frowned upon unless you were legit sick and sometimes this required a doctor's note. No scheduled sick days (e.g., for a procedure) were to be scheduled on a day adjacent to a school holiday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

This just sounds like busy work and a poor use of time. When did you have these meetings in a normal year? Any professional can schedule meetings that suck up time. You have to avoid doing this to be productive.

[Anonymous]

I never learn. No matter how much I explain why this year has been so much harder and more work, you don’t care. Not bothering anymore. Hope you appreciate your children’s teachers and I thank my lucky stars that the parents of my students aren’t so disrespectful.
Have a great night.

[Anonymous]

Teachers are people and they are allowed to take personal days as they please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Would you mind sharing when this work got down when kids were in the building 9-3:40 5 days a week? Now it’s 9-2:20 4 days a week. There are literally 12 fewer hours a week kids are with teachers now. When did teachers do planning pre Covid?

At night and on the weekends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are people and they are allowed to take personal days as they please.

Yep, and I don't care what parents think about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Mondays are still a complete waste of time. Notice no teaching actually happens. You can list your Monday plans all day. Kids are not learning on Monday. Full stop.

If kids are not learning, how is it a waste of time. Don’t log in. If any of you think it takes 40 hours of week to learn that is the problem. In a regular year, Kids are only actively being taught at most 3 hours per day anyway! And learning is even less time.

We don’t log in. Haven’t since December. Couldn’t tell you what happens on a Monday. We’re never there.

Your lazy azz hasn’t logged in for 4 months and you think you get to say what is or isn’t happening in those sessions? You have no clue, you admit you don’t log in!

Well my lazy ass actually never logs in because I’m an adult and not a helicopter parent. Clearly we have missed nothing since December so yeah, nothing important is happening.

Your kids aren't adults and lazy. Clearly they need monitoring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are people and they are allowed to take personal days as they please.

Yep, and I don't care what parents think about it.

As a parent, I'm fine with teachers taking personal days. As a parent, you can, so why are teachers held to a different standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are people and they are allowed to take personal days as they please.

Many jobs have restrictions on when you can take personal days. If there aren't enough subs, then that's a pretty darn good reason to restrict when they can be used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They probably took a day off if they’re coming back from somewhere ... which anyone with time off is allowed to do

Typically APS doesn't allow teachers to take personal days (or even sick days) adjacent to a holiday because it results in sub shortages.

The same counties that deny up and down that there's a sub shortage and refuse to increase sub pay, even for "in demand" days like right before or after breaks because there are supposedly plenty of subs, sure do like to put restrictions on when employees can take leave because there aren't enough subs. Maybe they should think on this for a minute.

[Anonymous]

Is tomorrow a synchronous day for all elementary students in APS? Confused parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is tomorrow a synchronous day for all elementary students in APS? Confused parent

Yes synchronous for k-12