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[quote=Anonymous]Dear Parent,

I collected 103 essays last week.  To thoroughly read each and then write comments/feedback on each, I need to devote 30-40 minutes per essay.  That is 3090 minutes in total IF I go quickly: 51.5 hours.  Contrary to what parents like you typically believe, I do not have much planning time at school to do this because of meetings, and because I need to work one-on-one with certain students out of class.  In addition, please remember that I also plan lessons, so this adds more hours.

So, no, they won't be done within two weeks, and I don't care what you think about it.  These compositions are important and require careful reading and feedback, and then the kids will produce a second draft; this is all essential.  You don't know what you are talking about, but in the past, I have sometimes cut all corners for the students of parents like you, slopping down a few vague comments in the margins, just to get you to leave me alone so that I can put proper time and care into the work of students whose parents don't try to command me to (stop sleeping?) get things back sooner.

I am a VERY "high quality instructor", and this is because I do put time into reading each essay carefully.  My colleague, who doesn't read them at all, has papers back with a rubric grade within two days.  You'd like her a lot.  (Her students don't get the high AP scores that my classes achieve each year).

Signed,

High School English Teacher

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