Teachers—How do you like parents to handle missed days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa, seriously? I should have to record a 15 minute lesson and then spend time uploading it every time a student tells me they are going to be out? I teach multiple courses—the day before breaks that could be 2 hours worth of extra work between recording and uploading and disseminating. I DO record my lessons when I’m going to be out, and it takes an hour to get a solid 15 minute segment.

Or did you mean I should just record class everyday and post it online? That’s illegal, without permission from every parent. Also impractical, because lessons are generally 10 minutes of instruction, 20 minutes of practice, repeat. I’d be stop/starting constantly.

Yeah I record stuff when *I* will be out. It takes probably 2 hours to do so as well and is a huge PITA but I have to do it. When every kid is out? LOL NO

Lazy and unimaginative. No wonder our kids are falling behind.

Also, I did not say "every kid."

So please explain, because multi day absences are a big issue for my students--whether legitimate health issues or family vacations, missing 2 days of block scheduled high school math is rough to recover from. If you have a realistic solution, I'd love to hear it. I have students absent every single day, if there is something that can simplify my life and theirs, please tell me! Right now I'm uploading every day's lessons (completed notes as a pdf, uploaded class slides, answer keys to anything done in class, homework and keys) and then pulling absent students for small group instruction during class or the remediation block, or working with them after school. Every time a kid is absent, it adds a lot of work to my plate--I'd appreciate the opportunity to simplify things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa, seriously? I should have to record a 15 minute lesson and then spend time uploading it every time a student tells me they are going to be out? I teach multiple courses—the day before breaks that could be 2 hours worth of extra work between recording and uploading and disseminating. I DO record my lessons when I’m going to be out, and it takes an hour to get a solid 15 minute segment.

Or did you mean I should just record class everyday and post it online? That’s illegal, without permission from every parent. Also impractical, because lessons are generally 10 minutes of instruction, 20 minutes of practice, repeat. I’d be stop/starting constantly.

Yeah I record stuff when *I* will be out. It takes probably 2 hours to do so as well and is a huge PITA but I have to do it. When every kid is out? LOL NO

Lazy and unimaginative. No wonder our kids are falling behind.

Also, I did not say "every kid."

Oh so just yours.

Lol it’s still a no. Imagine your boss asked you to record, take notes and distill the essence of everything you did each day at work and post it for your colleagues who may have been on vacation or sick or just didn’t feel like attending that meeting to view and see. Every single day. Because one of them might miss something each day. Also you get no extra pay or time for this. And if they don’t watch it and catch up you still need to track them down personally and go over it all again for them 1:1. You’re ridiculous.