Confirming no instruction this week

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My elementary schooler (4th) told me there has been no learning this week (and part of last). And they have a sub anyways since her teacher had a baby last month.

My 4th grader said her day consisted of: finishing the essay they were working on, doing a math packet, some reading related to social studies. She said it was like a normal day.

I don’t know why OP is asking such a general question when every teacher is different.

My 2nd grader said it was a normal day with reading and math too…except they did watch a movie for part of the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract?

Welcome to the working world. Some days people who are employed work more than their agreed upon working hours to get their jobs done. Some days they work less (like you did when you got a bunch of free vacation days this year due to the snow.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract?

Welcome to the working world. Some days people who are employed work more than their agreed upon working hours to get their jobs done. Some days they work less (like you did when you got a bunch of free vacation days this year due to the snow.)

Nope. I worked each of those snow days. No vacation here.

Let’s stop the assumptions about my job, okay? I’m not making disparaging comments about your job because I know that would be disrespectful. Why don’t you try showing a sliver of respect to a hard-working teacher instead of finding any possible way to take a stab at me and the profession I care about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract?

Welcome to the working world. Some days people who are employed work more than their agreed upon working hours to get their jobs done. Some days they work less (like you did when you got a bunch of free vacation days this year due to the snow.)

Nope. I worked each of those snow days. No vacation here.

Let’s stop the assumptions about my job, okay? I’m not making disparaging comments about your job because I know that would be disrespectful. Why don’t you try showing a sliver of respect to a hard-working teacher instead of finding any possible way to take a stab at me and the profession I care about?

That was your choice. It was “code red” and teachers weren’t allowed to interact with students so this wasn’t instructional time.

Why don’t you show a sliver of respect to other teachers who are actually teaching this week became these are official McPS instructional days and stop pretending like your way is the only way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

I can kind of see it as a way teachers giving students one last chance to boost their grades before the end of the marking period, like the other poster mentioned. One of my kids is right on the borderline of being the next grade up but I think their class is basically done for the year. Would've been nice if they had one last opportunity to bring their grade up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know we are at the end of the week (almost) but just wanted to reconfirm there is/was no instruction happening this week.

No new instruction, but I gave quizzes yesterday and the deadline for a project was today.

[Anonymous]

Well, one would hope the teacher is pretty much finished with the curriculum by now!!

By the way, it was like this when we were kids too. At the time we saw value in the social bonding, signing yearbooks, playing outside and cleaning out the classroom - celebrating one year and transitioning to the next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid said their teacher told them they can be on their phones - so it was tiktok and youtube all day yesterday. Middle school. No point in going but they are going there to have fun with friends.

What middle schooler has one teacher?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There has never been any instruction the last week of school.

This is not true. I had three kids in MCPS. One did k-12. One 6-12. One 9-12. All had at least some teachers assign work the last week until 12th. Two consistently had meaningful projects due the last week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract?

Welcome to the working world. Some days people who are employed work more than their agreed upon working hours to get their jobs done. Some days they work less (like you did when you got a bunch of free vacation days this year due to the snow.)

Nope. I worked each of those snow days. No vacation here.

Let’s stop the assumptions about my job, okay? I’m not making disparaging comments about your job because I know that would be disrespectful. Why don’t you try showing a sliver of respect to a hard-working teacher instead of finding any possible way to take a stab at me and the profession I care about?

That was your choice. It was “code red” and teachers weren’t allowed to interact with students so this wasn’t instructional time.

Why don’t you show a sliver of respect to other teachers who are actually teaching this week became these are official McPS instructional days and stop pretending like your way is the only way.

My way… like teaching every day?

And do you think a teacher’s work ends when we don’t have students in front of us? When do you think we plan? Grade? Respond to emails? Update reports? Discuss lessons with colleagues? All of this happens when we don’t have students in front of us… you know, like snow days.

So once again: stop insulting teachers just for the fun of it. Ticking off hard-working professionals who are doing the work you want them to do seems unproductive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There has never been any instruction the last week of school.

why do people accept this as normal/okay? certainly was never my experience as a student but i didn't grow up in MCPS

Why are you believing a liar?

what's the lie? had dinner with my nieces and nephews last night and they were all discussing which movies they have been watching all week... why are we accepting this as normal/okay? why must teaching end because grades are in? as a kid (again not in MCPS--but in a great school district) we didn't have the tradition of no learning the last week of school- we'd do projects- fun learning, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract?

Welcome to the working world. Some days people who are employed work more than their agreed upon working hours to get their jobs done. Some days they work less (like you did when you got a bunch of free vacation days this year due to the snow.)

Nope. I worked each of those snow days. No vacation here.

Let’s stop the assumptions about my job, okay? I’m not making disparaging comments about your job because I know that would be disrespectful. Why don’t you try showing a sliver of respect to a hard-working teacher instead of finding any possible way to take a stab at me and the profession I care about?

That was your choice. It was “code red” and teachers weren’t allowed to interact with students so this wasn’t instructional time.

Why don’t you show a sliver of respect to other teachers who are actually teaching this week became these are official McPS instructional days and stop pretending like your way is the only way.

My way… like teaching every day?

And do you think a teacher’s work ends when we don’t have students in front of us? When do you think we plan? Grade? Respond to emails? Update reports? Discuss lessons with colleagues? All of this happens when we don’t have students in front of us… you know, like snow days.

So once again: stop insulting teachers just for the fun of it. Ticking off hard-working professionals who are doing the work you want them to do seems unproductive.

You're the one insulting teachers by saying that no teachers are providing instruction this week. Both of my kids (ES and MS) were in school this week and reported back that they had instruction (and I can actually see assignments coming home for my younger ones, and assignments in gradebook for my older one).

If you were realistic about your intellect, you would know you're only able to speak competently about your own work (and clearly you're not doing much if you're posting on DCUM during a MCPS instructional day).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance. The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day. Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract?

Welcome to the working world. Some days people who are employed work more than their agreed upon working hours to get their jobs done. Some days they work less (like you did when you got a bunch of free vacation days this year due to the snow.)

Nope. I worked each of those snow days. No vacation here.

Let’s stop the assumptions about my job, okay? I’m not making disparaging comments about your job because I know that would be disrespectful. Why don’t you try showing a sliver of respect to a hard-working teacher instead of finding any possible way to take a stab at me and the profession I care about?

That was your choice. It was “code red” and teachers weren’t allowed to interact with students so this wasn’t instructional time.

Why don’t you show a sliver of respect to other teachers who are actually teaching this week became these are official McPS instructional days and stop pretending like your way is the only way.

My way… like teaching every day?

And do you think a teacher’s work ends when we don’t have students in front of us? When do you think we plan? Grade? Respond to emails? Update reports? Discuss lessons with colleagues? All of this happens when we don’t have students in front of us… you know, like snow days.

So once again: stop insulting teachers just for the fun of it. Ticking off hard-working professionals who are doing the work you want them to do seems unproductive.

You're the one insulting teachers by saying that no teachers are providing instruction this week. Both of my kids (ES and MS) were in school this week and reported back that they had instruction (and I can actually see assignments coming home for my younger ones, and assignments in gradebook for my older one).

If you were realistic about your intellect, you would know you're only able to speak competently about your own work (and clearly you're not doing much if you're posting on DCUM during a MCPS instructional day).

I think you’re addressing someone else. I’ve never stated anything about other teachers and whether they provided instruction this week. All I’ve posted is that I have provided instruction AND that teachers work plenty of outside hours. Both statements are true and neither insults others.

So once again: I ask that you stop insulting teachers. There’s no reason to dig and insult just for the joy of it. It’s not productive.