Teacher Putting in Grades Every 2-3 Weeks

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, it really bugs me when kids turn in work late, then demand it get graded immediately.

As a parent, it really bugs me when teachers don't ask kids for their homework and don't tell them it's missing, and then accuse them of being "late" weeks later.

As a teacher, I can't believe that you believed that one out of your DC.

As a teacher, you should catch up on your late paperwork and Canvas reporting instead of posting on DCUM.

DP. If it makes you happy, I worked 4 hours already today (Christmas Eve) and I’ll certainly work tomorrow.

So there you have it: I’m spending my entire break doing all the work I don’t have time to do at school.

I’d be happier if you kept up with it earlier so we’d know.
Happy now?

Here’s what you need to know:

I already work 60 hours a week, and I can’t keep up because the workload is so unreasonable. I refuse to go over 60, because (at some point) I feel I should be able to take care of my own family.

I use every holiday to catch up. I use every summer to get ahead.

This is the workload of a conscientious, dedicated teacher. We are the ones working with few resources to support your children.

Most teachers do very little to support individual students, maybe just a few of your favorites. Do more assignments online with autograding.

You are wrong. You clearly have no idea what it means to teach. So just STFU.

You shouldn't be a teacher with that attitude. Very little is done in MS and HS. I can see the teachers who try. We have several teachers this year who have missed weeks, and its a huge problem in HS with AP classes and classes that have state required tests with no textbooks to work with them at home.

I have a lot of patience with students and I support all of them. But I don't have patience with parents like you, that is true. Sorry you are struggling as a parent.

I'm not struggling as a parent. Good try. You don't support them, maybe a select few. Post the assignments online and grade them so parents can know and access the paper assigments so they can get done. Parents are trying and your way of doing things doesn't allow parents to support their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, it really bugs me when kids turn in work late, then demand it get graded immediately.

As a parent, it really bugs me when teachers don't ask kids for their homework and don't tell them it's missing, and then accuse them of being "late" weeks later.

As a teacher, I can't believe that you believed that one out of your DC.

As a teacher, you should catch up on your late paperwork and Canvas reporting instead of posting on DCUM.

DP. If it makes you happy, I worked 4 hours already today (Christmas Eve) and I’ll certainly work tomorrow.

So there you have it: I’m spending my entire break doing all the work I don’t have time to do at school.

I’d be happier if you kept up with it earlier so we’d know.
Happy now?

Here’s what you need to know:

I already work 60 hours a week, and I can’t keep up because the workload is so unreasonable. I refuse to go over 60, because (at some point) I feel I should be able to take care of my own family.

I use every holiday to catch up. I use every summer to get ahead.

This is the workload of a conscientious, dedicated teacher. We are the ones working with few resources to support your children.

Most teachers do very little to support individual students, maybe just a few of your favorites. Do more assignments online with autograding.

You are wrong. You clearly have no idea what it means to teach. So just STFU.

You shouldn't be a teacher with that attitude. Very little is done in MS and HS. I can see the teachers who try. We have several teachers this year who have missed weeks, and its a huge problem in HS with AP classes and classes that have state required tests with no textbooks to work with them at home.

You know that lack of textbooks is not a teacher issue. And, the inability of MCPS to fill slots for teachers who need leave is not a teacher issue. Not sure why you are attacking this teacher about these issues.

I don’t know whether it is luck or what, but all of my kids had great teachers and support at school - including my kid with special needs who was really difficult from day one until the day he graduated. And I am very thankful.

Some classes have textbooks that teachers give if you ask, they just choose not to use them. You are lucky if you had great teachers and support, as we haven't seen any support and a few great teachers, most are meh, some are just bad. You are lucky yours show up and teach.

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Anonymous wrote:Ignore the trolls saying that it's the kid's job to do the teacher's job for them.

The kid's "job" is to write down a list of assignments, do them and then check them off once turned in. If they do that, they won't have missing assignments at the end of the term.

If only that were true. My kids have had multiple occurrences of things showing as submitted it yet teacher losing the paper. There are also group assignments where only one perso can turn in so if that person doesn’t do so, everyone else doesn’t realize it until the the teacher notes it as missing. We’ve also had assignments that were not even due yet show up as 0 or 50%. It makes it so neither Students nor parents trust what is listed in Parentvue or Studentvue. Sometimes Canvas is better

I'm a teacher and I always have a few students who try to blame their missing assignments on me. Sorry... I am human and it might be possible for me to lose a paper once in a blue moon, but multiple papers from the same student, uh no. It is a very convenient excuse for mom and dad.

Yea I thought so too and tried to give some teacher’s grace. Tried to help kid do the same. Even sent an email myself to ask the teacher if there was something the kid was doing wrong in the submission process or just not turning it in. Once we had a PTC with one teacher, I was clear it wasn’t the kid. Everything started getting real clear once I started having the kid take a photo of the submitted assignments and then when asking about any problems attaching the photo plus copy his counselor and the resource teacher.

As far as how delayed grading can be, until this past Friday the last grade my kid had recorded in two classes was 11/15.

No, I’m not believing this. Nobody loses papers that often. And what does a photo of an assignment prove? Only that it existed, not that it was turned in. How do you take a pic of it “submitted” anyway?

I once had a family escalate a “lost paper” to my admin. The best part? The allegedly submitted assignment was digital. No record on Canvas (the system even said the assignment wasn’t turned in), no record in my email or Google drive as a shared file, etc. And somehow the child wasn’t able to share it with me again.

Kids lie far more than teachers lose papers.

What do you think happened? Kids are just stuffing them in their backpack and not turning them in? These isn’t an elementary schooler I’m talking about. Some of this was class work that was turned in on paper. Obviously you can take photos of quizzes and test. Some of the electronically submitted files that when the teacher searched for miraculously they came back indicating they have the file. No where did I say that kids don’t lie, which is why I started with the problem being my kid. But it’s also okay for you to admit that sometimes there are bad or at least disorganized teachers.

And while I certainly understand that teachers are stressed what do you want my kid and myself to do? I’m advocating for teachers to get their planning time back, I’m trying to be an engaged parent, my kid is trying to be an engaged student. But if the kid is getting little to no feedback on assignments and getting grades every 3-4 weeks, how do you expect students to do well or improve? How do you expect them to stay motivated? What does it say when grading times comes and I watch the kids grade bounce from an A to a C to a B and back to an A in one or two days. Or worse, just out of reach of an A. Meanwhile for kids who never turn in anything or who are getting F’s, schools are spending an insane amount of everyone’s time trying to figure out why or make sure they’ve had 5 phone calls.

Teachers have a union with a voice at the table. Ya’ll need to make clear that the current way of things is frustrating teachers, parents and students and either sometimes is done or everyone needs to agree to let this collapse so we can implement something new.

I’m still stuck on how you’re proving assignments are turned in.

You tell your child to take photos of quizzes and tests before they are submitted? Seriously??? I would immediately assume a child is cheating (or plans to cheat) if I see a cell phone pulled out at the end of an exam. This is horrible advice.

And yes, students regularly let unsubmitted work pile up in their backpacks. At least once a week I have a student with missing work sit by my desk and I ask them to go through the backpack. It’s almost ALWAYS wrinkled and crammed at the bottom. So many “my teacher lost it” papers are actually disintegrating at the bottom of backpacks.

No there was no photos taken of quizzes and test. Specifically for the reason you mentioned, the teacher would view it as trying to cheat. However there was a Google folder of plenty of completed class work papers completed homework, include the digital page where it was submitted (whether via Canvas or Google classroom, or Desmond, or whatever other program). Very few out of class assignments are submitted on paper except for group projects.

It varies by teacher, some are mainly paper and in class assignments, some are mixed, others online...mostly paper or mixed.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm getting is that there are lot of insecure adults who base their self esteem on comparing themselves to children, holding the kids accountable while having no standards for themselves, despite being paid to be there and serve as educators. Too incompetent to be an overbearing bad manager at a failing business, you settle for being an overbearing bad manager of a classroom.
Congratulations 🎉 You have better executive functioning skills than a 12 year old stuck in room with 20 to 30 rowdy kids and no organized process for submitting work. Do you want a cookie?

What are you even talking about? Of course we have organized processes for submitting work. But many schools and districts now enforce "no late" policies and do not allow a teacher to enter a zero until attempts have been made with the student. If I have moved on from an assignment, I am not going to keep going back to check whether your child submitted their late assignment until I get to the end of the term.

No teacher is making attempts. Never seen it once. If I don't know, I cannot make sure it gets done. We check daily to every few days. Teachers need to work with parents and colloberate.

As a teacher who works extremely hard, I resent your repeated attack on my profession. You have no idea what I do and what I give up to support my students.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm getting is that there are lot of insecure adults who base their self esteem on comparing themselves to children, holding the kids accountable while having no standards for themselves, despite being paid to be there and serve as educators. Too incompetent to be an overbearing bad manager at a failing business, you settle for being an overbearing bad manager of a classroom.
Congratulations 🎉 You have better executive functioning skills than a 12 year old stuck in room with 20 to 30 rowdy kids and no organized process for submitting work. Do you want a cookie?

What are you even talking about? Of course we have organized processes for submitting work. But many schools and districts now enforce "no late" policies and do not allow a teacher to enter a zero until attempts have been made with the student. If I have moved on from an assignment, I am not going to keep going back to check whether your child submitted their late assignment until I get to the end of the term.

No teacher is making attempts. Never seen it once. If I don't know, I cannot make sure it gets done. We check daily to every few days. Teachers need to work with parents and colloberate.

As a teacher who works extremely hard, I resent your repeated attack on my profession. You have no idea what I do and what I give up to support my students.

I’m not attacking the profession. I’m tired of teachers doing the absolute minimum and not communicating with parents and complaining about their students. We cannot help or deal with the situation if we don’t know and you don’t do your part.

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Anonymous wrote:What I'm getting is that there are lot of insecure adults who base their self esteem on comparing themselves to children, holding the kids accountable while having no standards for themselves, despite being paid to be there and serve as educators. Too incompetent to be an overbearing bad manager at a failing business, you settle for being an overbearing bad manager of a classroom.
Congratulations 🎉 You have better executive functioning skills than a 12 year old stuck in room with 20 to 30 rowdy kids and no organized process for submitting work. Do you want a cookie?

What are you even talking about? Of course we have organized processes for submitting work. But many schools and districts now enforce "no late" policies and do not allow a teacher to enter a zero until attempts have been made with the student. If I have moved on from an assignment, I am not going to keep going back to check whether your child submitted their late assignment until I get to the end of the term.

No teacher is making attempts. Never seen it once. If I don't know, I cannot make sure it gets done. We check daily to every few days. Teachers need to work with parents and colloberate.

As a teacher who works extremely hard, I resent your repeated attack on my profession. You have no idea what I do and what I give up to support my students.

I’m not attacking the profession. I’m tired of teachers doing the absolute minimum and not communicating with parents and complaining about their students. We cannot help or deal with the situation if we don’t know and you don’t do your part.

I say this as kindly as possible: I don’t think you have any idea what a teacher’s job is like. A teacher can put in a grueling 50 hours a week with no break and still not get the minimum met. Frankly, teachers are responsible for too much.

I was that amazing teacher who communicated effectively and frequently. I was highly respected by the entire community. I then burned out and left because I was working 7 days a week to keep ahead. My family suffered and begged me to quit. So I did, but I haven’t forgotten the nonstop work. I have full respect for teachers because I know what they do behind the scenes.

[Anonymous]

Look, if your kid has an IEP or a 504, the teacher should absolutely be reaching out when there is a ton of missing work. If they do have an IEP, you might consider reaching out to their case manager for help.

However, it doesn’t sound to me like the teacher is worried your kid is doing poorly. They’re allowing your child to turn in late work (I haven’t seen anything about it, so I’m assuming without penalty?). You can’t really ask for more than that.

If the teacher is posting grades every two weeks, that’s really all their responsible for. This sounds much more like a parent not getting their way situation, than a kid in danger of failing situation.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, it really bugs me when kids turn in work late, then demand it get graded immediately.

As a parent, it really bugs me when teachers don't ask kids for their homework and don't tell them it's missing, and then accuse them of being "late" weeks later.

As a teacher, I can't believe that you believed that one out of your DC.

As a teacher, you should catch up on your late paperwork and Canvas reporting instead of posting on DCUM.

DP. If it makes you happy, I worked 4 hours already today (Christmas Eve) and I’ll certainly work tomorrow.

So there you have it: I’m spending my entire break doing all the work I don’t have time to do at school.

I’d be happier if you kept up with it earlier so we’d know.
Happy now?

Here’s what you need to know:

I already work 60 hours a week, and I can’t keep up because the workload is so unreasonable. I refuse to go over 60, because (at some point) I feel I should be able to take care of my own family.

I use every holiday to catch up. I use every summer to get ahead.

This is the workload of a conscientious, dedicated teacher. We are the ones working with few resources to support your children.

Most teachers do very little to support individual students, maybe just a few of your favorites. Do more assignments online with autograding.

You are wrong. You clearly have no idea what it means to teach. So just STFU.

You shouldn't be a teacher with that attitude. Very little is done in MS and HS. I can see the teachers who try. We have several teachers this year who have missed weeks, and its a huge problem in HS with AP classes and classes that have state required tests with no textbooks to work with them at home.

You know that lack of textbooks is not a teacher issue. And, the inability of MCPS to fill slots for teachers who need leave is not a teacher issue. Not sure why you are attacking this teacher about these issues.

I don’t know whether it is luck or what, but all of my kids had great teachers and support at school - including my kid with special needs who was really difficult from day one until the day he graduated. And I am very thankful.

Some classes have textbooks that teachers give if you ask, they just choose not to use them. You are lucky if you had great teachers and support, as we haven't seen any support and a few great teachers, most are meh, some are just bad. You are lucky yours show up and teach.

Hey bitter, angry parent, quit blaming teachers. You are breeding bitter, angry children.

[Anonymous]

This is why we cannot have good schools. Everyone is against teachers. Admin, parents, society, even teachers are putted against teachers to disrespect and talk down to them. It doesn't matter how many over time hours they make you work for free.

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Every two weeks is considered the minimum, but longer is acceptable for projects or papers.

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My kid has EF issues but the reality is that you have to get it in on time the first time, or you don’t know when it will be marked. It’s a public school hazard. My kids teachers run the gamut. Some update regularly and some do not.

I work at a private school. So much fluff padded into the grades. It’s not authentic in its own way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every two weeks is considered the minimum, but longer is acceptable for projects or papers.

Let me help you. Twice per week, not every two weeks, is the minimum requirement for entering grades.

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Anonymous wrote:Every two weeks is considered the minimum, but longer is acceptable for projects or papers.

Let me help you. Twice per week, not every two weeks, is the minimum requirement for entering grades.

🙄 you are exhausting.

Teachers, stop getting to justify anything to these nitwits. They won’t get it. Imagine if the tables were turned.

Grading is complicated. If you can’t handle the timeline then talk to your therapy on how to manage your anxiety.

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I have no idea when the MCPS grading system is correct. I just looked, here an array of things going on:
- One classes states no missing assignment. Yet has zero for three assignments. I assume the teacher just hasn’t graded those but don’t understand why the grade is just not pending. Or if it’s missing why it isn’t reflected.
- One class shows missing assignments of which each noted as missing has a grade. If you go in Canvas you can see these are paper assignments. So why is the assignment noted as missing?
- One class has an assignment that is not due until January and in fact hasn’t even been given to students but yet the grade reflects 50%.

Maybe if Admin set and enforced a standard grading timeline and way Canvas is supposed to operate families could spend less time focusing on this and more time focused on the class content. I won’t even get into the need for meaningful feedback and grading for excellence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Every two weeks is considered the minimum, but longer is acceptable for projects or papers.

Let me help you. Twice per week, not every two weeks, is the minimum requirement for entering grades.

🙄 you are exhausting.

Teachers, stop getting to justify anything to these nitwits. They won’t get it. Imagine if the tables were turned.

Grading is complicated. If you can’t handle the timeline then talk to your therapy on how to manage your anxiety.

Talk to your therapy..LOL.