Teacher won't email back
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Anonymous
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I am so baffled that this thread is so hostile towards OP. Sounds like a scattered family and all that, but sheesh. How would you all feel if someone ghosted you for 2 weeks about an important work assignment?
OP if you haven't heard by now it's time to forward your request to the department head or a principal. |
Anonymous
| Make sure your kid keeps the one sided conversation on e-mail. Make sure they have proof that they turned it in (my kid has a teacher like OP's and does a screen recording when they submit). Wait until the quarter is over, if it's still missing e-mail the teacher with the chain of unanswered e-mails and the recording of the submission attached and say that you would like the grade changed without a big process, but that you are willing to go through the dispute process if necessary |
Anonymous
And, they are not even great with responding if you have an IEP. |
Anonymous
This is is not a thing-it was at one time but no more. I worked for a principal who never replies back to staff. Very unprofessional but they just didn't and the staff had the same attitude with other staff and parents. |
Anonymous
This! EVERYTHING in writing-trust no one in FCPS. |
Anonymous
You probably should head for the exit. Maybe you don't need the money or know you can find a better job somewhere else. And that's fine. Teaching isn't for everyone and if you find that the only way to manage the work is by clocking in for 60 hours of work a week every week then it probably isn't for you. |
Anonymous
| In Loudoun, teachers are supposed to respond within one business day. |
Anonymous
You sound stupid. |
Anonymous
| NP -- I don't see why the teacher can't be professional and acknowledge the receipt of assignment. It's a common courtesy. Instead the student and parent are getting stressed, possibly unnecessarily. |
Anonymous
MS is the time to let your kids learn to handle things and to fix their own mistakes. Helicoptering in middle school means your kid learns those difficult lessons in high school or college where grades count. Not responding to emails is unprofessional, but some of it is that what you're asking for is unreasonable. |
Anonymous
| What the bell is wrong with people? OP said it’s MS not HS or college. Kids are learning. Better late than never and the parent is parenting and being conscientious. Any other working professional in any other field would reply within a reasonable period of time and not be so bitter and snarky about it. |
Anonymous
I’ve been at this 20 years. Please explain to me, since you know my job better than I do, how I can do the following in 4.5 planning hours a WEEK: 1. Constructively comment on 280 papers, mostly multi-paragraph responses 2. Respond to approximately 75 emails 3. Plan 10 1-hour long presentations 4. Update all records (grading, attendance, discipline, etc) 5. Attend 2 1-hour meetings 6. Eat lunch and attend to personal needs I’m eagerly waiting to hear how to do this in under 5 hours. Please tell me! OP, to get this back on track: Just email the teacher and CC the assistant principal. That will likely work. |
Anonymous
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FWIW, in three years with FCPS, we’re never had a teacher that responded to emails timely or effectively.
Send another email, if still no response cc the principal |
Anonymous
Agree with this. Teachers don’t sit at their computers during the day. They see emails in 15-second glimpses between classes. A teacher can see that you wrote, but that teacher can’t sit down and craft a response until the end of the day. (And they still may not be able to if there are meetings, clubs to supervise, tutoring, etc.). Unfortunately, your email may be 20-25 emails down in the inbox by that time. So emails are often evening/night work for many of us along with planning and grading. I doubt the teacher is ignoring your emails; they just get buried. Is it okay? No. But if you’ve sent multiple emails then cc-ing admin will push it to the top of the teacher’s to-do list. |
Anonymous
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How fo you title your emails?
The teachers have around 150 students to manage and get a ton of emails. Answering emails is a HUGE time suck at any job, especially if you get a couple of high needs people emailing who want to argue. I always have luck getting a quick response from teachers, because I make the title of the email very clear so the teacher has an idea of the question and priority at a glance before opening the email. When you email, put your student's name, class period and a BRIEF explaination of the topic of the email in the header. For example: "Larla Jones, 5th period English, quick homework question Shakespeare project" Or: "Larla Jones, 2nd period science, IMPORTANT safety issue Tuesday's lab" Or: "Larla Jones, 1st period choir, absence reminder (low priority)" If you have a simple question that can be answered in 3 minutes, or an important, time sensitive issue, make that clear in the topic. Put in your kids name, subject and class period. This is really important because the teachers won't necessarily match your email to the kid, or the class period. They might have 12 emails in their inbox that morning, all with the header "late assignment" and 9 emails with the title "book report" from parents with emails like soccerfamily5 or susant1987 that give no indication of which student the email goes with. The teachers get a TON of emails. If you want a quick answer, make it obvious to the teacher which kid the email is about and what the topic is. To the note of the teacher not responding to you about your kid's late homework not being in the gradebook: A) This is not an email issue with parents, unless it is a pattern of your kid not turning in the homework. One or two late assignments is not email worthy and just clogs up the teacher's inbox so they miss important stuff. B) Missing homework is the responsibility for your teen/preteen to verbally confirm with the teacher that it was received. C) If the assignment is digital, then your student can log into schoology with you to confirm the assignment was submitted. Schoology clearly inficates the status of submitted assignments. You DO NOT need additional teacher email confirmation if schoology shows it as submitted. D) In middle and high school, late assignments ALWAYS get graded at the end or later in the quarter, without exception or with very rare exception. The teachers have 150 students to grade. Going backwards for a kid who didn't turn things in makes their work more difficult and delays grades for the 85 students who turned everything in on time. As long as your kid received verbal communication that the assignment was received by tge teacher (in person assignments) or schoology confirmation that the assignment was submitted, then they are good to go and you do not need to bother the teacher with emails about the late homework. Yes, you and your kid will need to look at that glaring zero for weeks until the grade is entered at the end of the quarter. Yes, your kids SIS might show a C minus all month because of that zero. This is okay. In fact, it is a good life lesson. Middle school grades don't actually count, so take this as an opportunity to teach your kid the valuable lesson that their lack of planning or disorganization is not someone else's emergency. |