Schools closed for students Monday Feb 2

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

All I'm hearing is that you knew the snowstorm was coming, didn't keep up with your grading and are now pretending you were required to work last week, when you weren't. When I have to work over the weekend because I didn't get enough work during the week, I don't claim I need to get paid extra.

But this is what the teachers unions do to get more things. Claim something is just horribly HORRIBLY unfair even though what they are saying makes no sense. And then anyone who is like what? Gets told we hate teachers. Please. I know actual teachers and they didn't work at all last week. I get the makeup days are annoying and nobody wants them but frankly school systems have to have SOME incentive to actually have a school year because if you give the unions an inch they will take a mile.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

The best teaching job must be PE teachers on days like tomorrow and last week?

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I did all my Progress Reports for my Special Ed caseload last week but i needed to do those anyway. I don’t grade or plan lessons so my week was a bit more open than some of my colleagues. I used it to shovel

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

All I'm hearing is that you knew the snowstorm was coming, didn't keep up with your grading and are now pretending you were required to work last week, when you weren't. When I have to work over the weekend because I didn't get enough work during the week, I don't claim I need to get paid extra.

But this is what the teachers unions do to get more things. Claim something is just horribly HORRIBLY unfair even though what they are saying makes no sense. And then anyone who is like what? Gets told we hate teachers. Please. I know actual teachers and they didn't work at all last week. I get the makeup days are annoying and nobody wants them but frankly school systems have to have SOME incentive to actually have a school year because if you give the unions an inch they will take a mile.

Or:

I teach an AP class and just collected over a 100 essays before the storm hit, each requiring substantial feedback.

But you’re right. Let’s go with your thoughts that I’m a lazy, procrastinating teacher. You need something to fuel your rage, I guess.

Feeling a bit embarrassed? Yes, I thought so.

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Anonymous wrote:Every job has it's positives and negatives.

Teaching has it's perks, snow days are one of them.

Teachers also have work that seems impossible to complete in their duty day (planning, grading, prepping lessons, documentation, parent contact, Behavior plans, IEP's... it goes on and on). Both are true.

The good thing is, anyone is welcome to become a teacher, if you want.

But back to the actual thread: The county's changed it to a code orange. I'm not sure why they thought they could make up a new type of day on the fly to begin with. It seems the powers that be do not like office workers to work when all staff is not called in, too. But again, that's just different roles and different perks. I think it'll be good to have offices open, maybe now I can actually get ahold of ERSC when I call!

The original announcement wasn't any color code. They were buying time to figure out the code (waiting to hear from unions perhaps?).

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

All I'm hearing is that you knew the snowstorm was coming, didn't keep up with your grading and are now pretending you were required to work last week, when you weren't. When I have to work over the weekend because I didn't get enough work during the week, I don't claim I need to get paid extra.

But this is what the teachers unions do to get more things. Claim something is just horribly HORRIBLY unfair even though what they are saying makes no sense. And then anyone who is like what? Gets told we hate teachers. Please. I know actual teachers and they didn't work at all last week. I get the makeup days are annoying and nobody wants them but frankly school systems have to have SOME incentive to actually have a school year because if you give the unions an inch they will take a mile.

Or:

I teach an AP class and just collected over a 100 essays before the storm hit, each requiring substantial feedback.

But you’re right. Let’s go with your thoughts that I’m a lazy, procrastinating teacher. You need something to fuel your rage, I guess.

Feeling a bit embarrassed? Yes, I thought so.

That makes no sense. What would you have done if the storm hadn’t hit? Somehow I don’t think you would have spent 40 hours providing feedback on essays you collected on a Friday with grades due the following Monday.

all my kids’ teachers don’t assign work/tests that take substantial grading time right before the marking period ends since there would be no time to grade them.

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Teachers have someone made this a thread about what victims they are. Amazing

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

All I'm hearing is that you knew the snowstorm was coming, didn't keep up with your grading and are now pretending you were required to work last week, when you weren't. When I have to work over the weekend because I didn't get enough work during the week, I don't claim I need to get paid extra.

But this is what the teachers unions do to get more things. Claim something is just horribly HORRIBLY unfair even though what they are saying makes no sense. And then anyone who is like what? Gets told we hate teachers. Please. I know actual teachers and they didn't work at all last week. I get the makeup days are annoying and nobody wants them but frankly school systems have to have SOME incentive to actually have a school year because if you give the unions an inch they will take a mile.

Or:

I teach an AP class and just collected over a 100 essays before the storm hit, each requiring substantial feedback.

But you’re right. Let’s go with your thoughts that I’m a lazy, procrastinating teacher. You need something to fuel your rage, I guess.

Feeling a bit embarrassed? Yes, I thought so.

I am feeling embarrassed for you. Grades were supposed to be due last Monday. You got a bunch of extra time to finish, and you took it. You were not required to work on the snow days, but that is the thing about being a salaried worker - you have to get your work done.

I never called you lazy btw, but it sounds like that's how you think of yourself. You are projecting your self hatred onto me.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers have someone made this a thread about what victims they are. Amazing

No, what happened is that people who hate teachers made wild blanket accusations and then some teachers shared what their lives are really like.

One day soon, no human being will be willing to do the job of teaching. It’ll all be computers/AI.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

Don’t worry-you’ll get paid for a full day’s work when MCPS adds 4 half days in June and you put videos on to entertain the students while you clean out you classroom, when you’re paid a good salary to do actual instructional time.

Teachers will not get paid for make up days. We were paid last week, we don’t get paid for those days again.

Yes you got a paid vacation last week while most of America had to work. And you will likely make up those days working half time in June showing kids videos when school is in effect over. So you get gifted a week of time this year where you don’t have to do instruction.

In most other salaried jobs, you have to work til the work gets done. We don’t get to show videos.

This is such a bizarre attitude. Instructing students is a joy.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers have someone made this a thread about what victims they are. Amazing

+1 and then they are like "why are DCUM posters so mean to teachers?!?"

Bich DCUM posters are mean to everyone but especially those that lack reason

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

All I'm hearing is that you knew the snowstorm was coming, didn't keep up with your grading and are now pretending you were required to work last week, when you weren't. When I have to work over the weekend because I didn't get enough work during the week, I don't claim I need to get paid extra.

But this is what the teachers unions do to get more things. Claim something is just horribly HORRIBLY unfair even though what they are saying makes no sense. And then anyone who is like what? Gets told we hate teachers. Please. I know actual teachers and they didn't work at all last week. I get the makeup days are annoying and nobody wants them but frankly school systems have to have SOME incentive to actually have a school year because if you give the unions an inch they will take a mile.

Or:

I teach an AP class and just collected over a 100 essays before the storm hit, each requiring substantial feedback.

But you’re right. Let’s go with your thoughts that I’m a lazy, procrastinating teacher. You need something to fuel your rage, I guess.

Feeling a bit embarrassed? Yes, I thought so.

That makes no sense. What would you have done if the storm hadn’t hit? Somehow I don’t think you would have spent 40 hours providing feedback on essays you collected on a Friday with grades due the following Monday.

all my kids’ teachers don’t assign work/tests that take substantial grading time right before the marking period ends since there would be no time to grade them.

I would have still graded them, of course.

And as an AP teacher, I grade every single weekend. Sure, the storm gave me a “break” and I got to stretch the essays over a few days instead of working ALL hours.

And instead of the rudeness, how about just pausing for a second and realizing that we are on the same side. Is that too hard? Or are you just out to insult?

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

All I'm hearing is that you knew the snowstorm was coming, didn't keep up with your grading and are now pretending you were required to work last week, when you weren't. When I have to work over the weekend because I didn't get enough work during the week, I don't claim I need to get paid extra.

But this is what the teachers unions do to get more things. Claim something is just horribly HORRIBLY unfair even though what they are saying makes no sense. And then anyone who is like what? Gets told we hate teachers. Please. I know actual teachers and they didn't work at all last week. I get the makeup days are annoying and nobody wants them but frankly school systems have to have SOME incentive to actually have a school year because if you give the unions an inch they will take a mile.

Or:

I teach an AP class and just collected over a 100 essays before the storm hit, each requiring substantial feedback.

But you’re right. Let’s go with your thoughts that I’m a lazy, procrastinating teacher. You need something to fuel your rage, I guess.

Feeling a bit embarrassed? Yes, I thought so.

I am feeling embarrassed for you. Grades were supposed to be due last Monday. You got a bunch of extra time to finish, and you took it. You were not required to work on the snow days, but that is the thing about being a salaried worker - you have to get your work done.

I never called you lazy btw, but it sounds like that's how you think of yourself. You are projecting your self hatred onto me.

I not that teacher, but AP units don’t start and stop with the regular marking periods. It is not unusual for students to turn in FREs and DBQs at the very end of one marking period, then get the grades at the start of the next.

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Anonymous wrote:This screams union all over it.

They missed their records day 1/26 so are getting it 2/2. Kids be damned.

Yup. That’s the way this makes sense. They need the grading day back despite being closed all of last week.

You try finalizing grades for 150 kids on the same day you are meeting new kids and planning for a new quarter.

And if you respond with, “it should have been done last week” when we weren’t getting paid… you are part of the problem why educators leave. The disrespect is unfathomable.

I don't understand this attitude. You're a salaried employee, you don't "not get paid" for any particular day. Other professions don't get to put work off because there's a snow day.

Do you n the e a reading lesson? Salaried teachers have a contract that clearly states the number of days they work, how many hours per day, etc. I’m sorry your $300k salary job doesn’t have a union. We low class teachers need unions to protect us from the likes of you

But you didn't have to work last week. Maybe if you put off grading sure. But that's not MCPS's fault.

Put off grading?

Try this instead: we don’t get dedicated hours for grading. Therefore we grade at 10pm on Thursday, 8am on Saturday, 2pm on Sunday. This is why I work over 60 hours a week. Grading.

So it’s not that I’m putting it off. It’s that work doesn’t give me time to do it.

This literally has nothing to do with the makeup days. You didn't have to provide instruction last week, so there will be makeup days to makeup for that. You'll be paid the salary you agreed to.

I wish all I had to worry about is instruction.

Unfortunately, my job has a few pesky requirements that I’m not given time at work to complete. You know, silly little things like grading papers and planning instruction. All of that happens at home.

I know many people think the magic just materializes in the classroom. In truth, it occurs because of the work I do every single night, every single weekend, and (yes) every single snow day.

So you’re welcome. My instruction is so amazing because of the work I do at home. And you won’t get away with suggesting I’m lazy.

Regarding pay: no, I’m not paid enough. But you can make up for it by being a reasonable, respectful person. That’s all I ask.

All I'm hearing is that you knew the snowstorm was coming, didn't keep up with your grading and are now pretending you were required to work last week, when you weren't. When I have to work over the weekend because I didn't get enough work during the week, I don't claim I need to get paid extra.

But this is what the teachers unions do to get more things. Claim something is just horribly HORRIBLY unfair even though what they are saying makes no sense. And then anyone who is like what? Gets told we hate teachers. Please. I know actual teachers and they didn't work at all last week. I get the makeup days are annoying and nobody wants them but frankly school systems have to have SOME incentive to actually have a school year because if you give the unions an inch they will take a mile.

Or:

I teach an AP class and just collected over a 100 essays before the storm hit, each requiring substantial feedback.

But you’re right. Let’s go with your thoughts that I’m a lazy, procrastinating teacher. You need something to fuel your rage, I guess.

Feeling a bit embarrassed? Yes, I thought so.

I am feeling embarrassed for you. Grades were supposed to be due last Monday. You got a bunch of extra time to finish, and you took it. You were not required to work on the snow days, but that is the thing about being a salaried worker - you have to get your work done.

I never called you lazy btw, but it sounds like that's how you think of yourself. You are projecting your self hatred onto me.

Most AP classes are year long and many of them issued assignments in MP2 that were being graded in MP3. This teacher may have had all their MP2 grades done and was now grading the first assignments of the new MP

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers have someone made this a thread about what victims they are. Amazing

No, what happened is that people who hate teachers made wild blanket accusations and then some teachers shared what their lives are really like.

One day soon, no human being will be willing to do the job of teaching. It’ll all be computers/AI.

It’s this. And they don’t realize that the teachers they are gleefully tearing apart are the very people they want teaching their children. We’re the ones providing timely feedback, writing recommendations, creating engaging lessons, etc.