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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happened to us a couple of years ago, but the D grade made it back up to an A by the time the teacher finally finished grading.

I think many kids in the class emailed the teacher expressing surprise and concern, which caused him to either double check or else find extra points to avoid the hurricane of complaints.

[b]Teachers who are too disorganized to grade[/b] before the deadline probably also made mistakes with uploads, etc.  So what you're currently seeing may well not be the final final. [/quote]

Why do you assume it is disorganization? Maybe this teacher is spending her planning periods covering for other teachers because that's what we all are doing.[/quote]

Periods? A full time teacher is only required to have one planning period. Part time teachers get even less. Imagine being responsible for over 100 students but less than an hour a day to plan. Planning is different than grading by the way. In the best case scenario, a teacher gets time to grade the current assignments before planning the following lessons. But that’s now how MCPS works in most content areas. Teachers are required to keep shoving curriculum down kids’ throats regardless of mastery of previous content. [/quote]

Our principal has made it clear that no one should expect a planning period until the coverage crisis is over. If you get one or two to plan, grade, or make parent contact, that’s nice, but don’t feel entitled to it when warm bodies are needed to supervise children. We spend 4 periods a week in meetings and usually the other 5-6 in coverage. [/quote]

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