A plea to HS teachers

[Anonymous]

Please grade your students work accurately and in a timely fashion. My freshman has two teachers who have not graded work from months ago. One is an English teacher who assigned essays or papers which should be given back with feedback so the student can become a writer. Not only have they not been returned with feedback but they haven't been returned at all and school is almost over. In both classes, she has no idea what her final grade is going into the final exam. That doesn't seem fair. Another teacher has made many errors in grading work and hasn't corrected the gradebook entry despite polite reminders. My kid works very hard to get her homework done. She is not perfect and sometimes screws up. If my kid turns her work in late, she gets partial or no credit as is reasonable. But these same teachers aren't doing their job.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure many HS teachers are reading here. You might be better off contacting your school principal.

[Anonymous]

This is a teacher-specific issue which you and your student should take up with the school. That's what the counselors and administrators are there for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure many HS teachers are reading here. You might be better off contacting your school principal.

There are plenty of us on here. And 99% of us do our grading, promptly and accurately.

This isn't a plea to "HS teachers" it's to ONE problem teacher. This should be addressed with the administrator, not with this website of random people, who also could be teachers, but the vast majority of us DO our grading and feedback and such promptly.

Note that in a year where she had at minimum 8 teachers, there is ONE teacher you are pointing out. That is 12% OF HER YEAR. or 88% that did their jobs well.

[Anonymous]

Tell me about it. No idea if my kid will end up with a B+ or a D in IB Physics. He’s tried so hard this year and been in for extra help and spends hours studying and working on projects and we have no sense of where he’ll land.

[Anonymous]

It’s two teachers. Not one. I only elaborated about one. My kid has contacted the counselor to no avail. I’m trying to decide if we as parents should get involved and go to the principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s two teachers. Not one. I only elaborated about one. My kid has contacted the counselor to no avail. I’m trying to decide if we as parents should get involved and go to the principal.

My DD has one of these teachers this year and I do plan to email the department chair over the summer after final grades are in. It’s really not fair to the kids.

[Anonymous]

I’d say it’s about 25-30% of my kids’ teachers each year who don’t grade stuff in a reasonably timely manner. So frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d say it’s about 25-30% of my kids’ teachers each year who don’t grade stuff in a reasonably timely manner. So frustrating.

Yes, OP, you aren't alone and to the defensive PP, it is likely not just one teacher. We have experienced 2-3 teachers almost every year who grade everything at the end. I'm lucky, because this year, my son's high school teachers are wonderful and work is graded very quickly. In middle school, it was horrible. Late grading and the inability to help my kids learn from their mistakes on quizzes is one of the reasons we switched our ADHD son out of public school. Too much stress. Complaints did no good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please grade your students work accurately and in a timely fashion. My freshman has two teachers who have not graded work from months ago. One is an English teacher who assigned essays or papers which should be given back with feedback so the student can become a writer. Not only have they not been returned with feedback but they haven't been returned at all and school is almost over. In both classes, she has no idea what her final grade is going into the final exam. That doesn't seem fair. Another teacher has made many errors in grading work and hasn't corrected the gradebook entry despite polite reminders. My kid works very hard to get her homework done. She is not perfect and sometimes screws up. If my kid turns her work in late, she gets partial or no credit as is reasonable. But these same teachers aren't doing their job.

which school?

[Anonymous]

This is extremely common in DCPS at all levels, including high school. It's extremely frustrating and teaches kids a ton of terrible lessons. DCPS has actually updated their policies to remove specific rules about how quickly teachers needed to grade/return/enter work. That, rather than actually getting teachers to provide timely feedback, was their response to parents complaining that teachers were violating the policy.

[Anonymous]

How on earth would you know that your ninth grader will become a writer? In 9th grade I still was set on becoming an actor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How on earth would you know that your ninth grader will become a writer? In 9th grade I still was set on becoming an actor.

I suspect she skipped the word “better.” The idea is to improve your writing, which is hard if you get no feedback.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please grade your students work accurately and in a timely fashion. My freshman has two teachers who have not graded work from months ago. One is an English teacher who assigned essays or papers which should be given back with feedback so the student can become a writer. Not only have they not been returned with feedback but they haven't been returned at all and school is almost over. In both classes, she has no idea what her final grade is going into the final exam. That doesn't seem fair. Another teacher has made many errors in grading work and hasn't corrected the gradebook entry despite polite reminders. My kid works very hard to get her homework done. She is not perfect and sometimes screws up. If my kid turns her work in late, she gets partial or no credit as is reasonable. But these same teachers aren't doing their job.

A plea to HS students: Please do your goddamn work on time and don't be scrambling at the last minute to ask DCUM for help converting an English poem into archaic English, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How on earth would you know that your ninth grader will become a writer? In 9th grade I still was set on becoming an actor.

I suspect she skipped the word “better.” The idea is to improve your writing, which is hard if you get no feedback.

Yes, I meant "better writer." Sorry for my error and thank you PP for understanding me anyway!

To the DCPS poster: that is absolutely horrible.