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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op,

I am a middle school English teacher. You have the right to complain. My students write  lengthy papers at least twice a month. Writing is a time consuming process for both the student and teacher.

Please complain. I am so tired of lazy teachers. They make those of us who work hard look bad. When we inherit their students our jobs are so much harder. It is not fair for the kids.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you. Honestly I’m the last one to ever complain about anyone. I’ve had a waiter accidentally spill a hot giant bowl of pho on me and didn’t complain or ask for comp from restaurant as I felt bad getting the young waitress in trouble. When it comes to my kid it’s more of a struggle for me with this urge to voice my concerns.

To be clear, I highly doubt it’s a health issue with this teacher. I’ve had experience with many other teachers who were out for maternity, marriage, medical issues etc but this is different. I should have tried to move him when on back to school orientation night he tired to give us his class overview to parents while, at the same time, try to teach his extra side gig, English tutor to several young elementary kids via zoom. Talking to us direly 1/2 time and giving them langue discussion topics 1/2 time. I’ve never seen that before. He said he couldn’t resolve schedule conflict and trying to do both. I could already see 1/2 parents super annoyed at that point and that was first month of school. Then he was out for a week with car trouble sometime last year. Then just this past week he was out Thursday and Monday. Then he hasn’t been here to do the makeup quizzes with the kids who has signed up for testing. And he hasn’t graded anything since start of this semester. He has yet to give any substantial assignments since start of the year. I get bits and pieces only between my discussions with my 8th grader and his 7th grader friend who has him also. They all say the class is a joke. If I don’t say anything then next year kids will have the same troubling experience. My younger will go to middle soon and also might get him.

I’m conflicted but these are the reasons why I’m concerned. I’m not aware of students can give feedback at the end of class or not. I’ve never had any school surveys around classes either so there isn’t an anonymous way for me to give feedback either.

Either way, I’ll be working on language and writing with him after school as likely nothing will be done with teacher shortags.

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