No posted grades until interims

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Anonymous wrote:At our school, they barely even post-internships. I mean, they do sometimes, but not always. They don't use the grade book and only send some tests home. For example, one of my kids had an A in social studies on their interim. Every paper that came home had an A. At the end of the quarter, they had a B. I asked the teacher about it and was told it was because of assessments they can't send home. This seems kind of bad to me.

They can’t send the assessment home but that doesn’t mean that can’t send the grade home. If it’s going to be factored into the grading, students should know what’s being factored in.

Then the student can ask the teacher. Done. MoCo has the whiniest parents of any district I've ever lived in. It's absurd the amount of hand holding you expect from schools,admin, teachers, etc. instead of teaching your kids to advocate for themselves and hold themselves accountable for their own grades, actions, behaviors, etc. etc. etc. etc....

No, we expect teachers to do the job they are paid for, which includes communicating with students and their parents.

Well these days I'm happy if they just show up over 70% of the time. My kid's teacher for the past year is out at least 1 week per month.

Clearly there’s a health issue then since teachers don’t get that much leave (25 days so far if you aren’t exaggerating) and need approval to miss more than four days in a row. Teachers, like every other human being, can have chronic illnesses or have children of their own with them.

Don't think so.. I mean my kids teachers for the past two years were the same as the PP. They're constantly absent. I figured normal these days.

The job isn’t sustainable.

I took a day off last week just so I could grade papers because weekends aren’t enough right now. I took a day of leave to grade for 10 hours.

My coworkers are doing the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:At our school, they barely even post-internships. I mean, they do sometimes, but not always. They don't use the grade book and only send some tests home. For example, one of my kids had an A in social studies on their interim. Every paper that came home had an A. At the end of the quarter, they had a B. I asked the teacher about it and was told it was because of assessments they can't send home. This seems kind of bad to me.

They can’t send the assessment home but that doesn’t mean that can’t send the grade home. If it’s going to be factored into the grading, students should know what’s being factored in.

Then the student can ask the teacher. Done. MoCo has the whiniest parents of any district I've ever lived in. It's absurd the amount of hand holding you expect from schools,admin, teachers, etc. instead of teaching your kids to advocate for themselves and hold themselves accountable for their own grades, actions, behaviors, etc. etc. etc. etc....

No, we expect teachers to do the job they are paid for, which includes communicating with students and their parents.

I'm sorry. Thank God I am retired now. The only thing I miss are my fellow teachers.

Well these days I'm happy if they just show up over 70% of the time. My kid's teacher for the past year is out at least 1 week per month.

Clearly there’s a health issue then since teachers don’t get that much leave (25 days so far if you aren’t exaggerating) and need approval to miss more than four days in a row. Teachers, like every other human being, can have chronic illnesses or have children of their own with them.

Don't think so.. I mean my kids teachers for the past two years were the same as the PP. They're constantly absent. I figured normal these days.

The job isn’t sustainable.

I took a day off last week just so I could grade papers because weekends aren’t enough right now. I took a day of leave to grade for 10 hours.

My coworkers are doing the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe you would like to volunteer for an experiment to grade 150 papers with feedback comments in 30 minutes while simultaneously eating your lunch because this is what we are tasked to do EVERYDAY thank you very much

Then don’t do the assignments if you will not grade them.

How about we get rid of all teachers then!! 🙄 seriously. If the RT had time then they could have talked with the teacher as admin and department leaders all have access to the gradebook. But guess what. They most likely were trying to put out daily fires. Believe me. Teachers do not want to wait to put things in the gradebook. Especially for a core class. English takes hours and hours. Unless you want all multiple choice questions. And then complain you aren’t getting any feedback. Just stop for a moment. Unless you are deliberately ignoring the current climate, education is drowning. But of course sure some “clever” dcum genius will reply to this and complain anyway. Just like your kids, you don’t get to abuse us either.

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Anonymous wrote:At our school, they barely even post-internships. I mean, they do sometimes, but not always. They don't use the grade book and only send some tests home. For example, one of my kids had an A in social studies on their interim. Every paper that came home had an A. At the end of the quarter, they had a B. I asked the teacher about it and was told it was because of assessments they can't send home. This seems kind of bad to me.

They can’t send the assessment home but that doesn’t mean that can’t send the grade home. If it’s going to be factored into the grading, students should know what’s being factored in.

Then the student can ask the teacher. Done. MoCo has the whiniest parents of any district I've ever lived in. It's absurd the amount of hand holding you expect from schools,admin, teachers, etc. instead of teaching your kids to advocate for themselves and hold themselves accountable for their own grades, actions, behaviors, etc. etc. etc. etc....

No, we expect teachers to do the job they are paid for, which includes communicating with students and their parents.

Well these days I'm happy if they just show up over 70% of the time. My kid's teacher for the past year is out at least 1 week per month.

Clearly there’s a health issue then since teachers don’t get that much leave (25 days so far if you aren’t exaggerating) and need approval to miss more than four days in a row. Teachers, like every other human being, can have chronic illnesses or have children of their own with them.

Don't think so.. I mean my kids teachers for the past two years were the same as the PP. They're constantly absent. I figured normal these days.

Aww you’re so smug and self important. How adorable!!!

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Oof, I do feel badly for English teachers, they do have an incredible amount of papers to grade.

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And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

Have you asked us? I’m all for it. I would LOVE a year-round schedule. I assume, of course, that you’ll pay me accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

Have you asked us? I’m all for it. I would LOVE a year-round schedule. I assume, of course, that you’ll pay me accordingly.

And the school district will (not) provide a year-round curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

Have you asked us? I’m all for it. I would LOVE a year-round schedule. I assume, of course, that you’ll pay me accordingly.

Same. I would LOVE year round. More breaks off during the year would be great for everyone. We could actually teach the entire curriculum spaced out and have more time to grade and plan effectively. But it would never happen here. I feel it’s a pipe dream.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

I would love to do that and plenty of other teachers I know agree. The problem is that it isn’t attractive to most parents in MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:At our school, they barely even post-internships. I mean, they do sometimes, but not always. They don't use the grade book and only send some tests home. For example, one of my kids had an A in social studies on their interim. Every paper that came home had an A. At the end of the quarter, they had a B. I asked the teacher about it and was told it was because of assessments they can't send home. This seems kind of bad to me.

They can’t send the assessment home but that doesn’t mean that can’t send the grade home. If it’s going to be factored into the grading, students should know what’s being factored in.

Then the student can ask the teacher. Done. MoCo has the whiniest parents of any district I've ever lived in. It's absurd the amount of hand holding you expect from schools,admin, teachers, etc. instead of teaching your kids to advocate for themselves and hold themselves accountable for their own grades, actions, behaviors, etc. etc. etc. etc....

No, we expect teachers to do the job they are paid for, which includes communicating with students and their parents.

Well these days I'm happy if they just show up over 70% of the time. My kid's teacher for the past year is out at least 1 week per month.

Clearly there’s a health issue then since teachers don’t get that much leave (25 days so far if you aren’t exaggerating) and need approval to miss more than four days in a row. Teachers, like every other human being, can have chronic illnesses or have children of their own with them.

Don't think so.. I mean my kids teachers for the past two years were the same as the PP. They're constantly absent. I figured normal these days.

I call BS.

Missing 5 out of 20 duty days every month is going to flag you for additional support, if not PAAR u less you have a medical condition.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

Have you asked us? I’m all for it. I would LOVE a year-round schedule. I assume, of course, that you’ll pay me accordingly.

Yes I have talked with some teachers about this and they were not in favor. They thought it would just be more work. That research hasn’t indicated it’s better for kids learning. Didn’t want to start the school year earlier. Etc. Meanwhile I know teachers in other states who have year-round schedules or a modified version of the year-round schedule and most of them would never go back to a traditional calendar unless absolutely forced by a move to somewhere that didn’t have school districts with options. Why? Because they all agree it’s better mentally for them and the kids as it gives everyone needed breaks.

So if teachers here would actually like a year round or a modified version of year round, I would recommend talking to your colleagues and union.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

Have you asked us? I’m all for it. I would LOVE a year-round schedule. I assume, of course, that you’ll pay me accordingly.

And the school district will (not) provide a year-round curriculum.

??? You do realize that it’s the same curriculum just spaced out differently. Same with the number of days in the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:Oof, I do feel badly for English teachers, they do have an incredible amount of papers to grade.

Not just English teachers these days. Due to curriculum changed, there’s an enormous amount of writing in other subjects as well. I think only math was spared.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet teachers don’t want to move away from a traditional school schedule towards some version of a year round schedule.

Have you asked us? I’m all for it. I would LOVE a year-round schedule. I assume, of course, that you’ll pay me accordingly.

And the school district will (not) provide a year-round curriculum.

??? You do realize that it’s the same curriculum just spaced out differently. Same with the number of days in the school year.

Unless the state of MD will change the MCAP testing window, MCPS curriculum will have issues being spaced out differently.