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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an ongoing issue and I'm not a teacher hater, I respect teachers, but this happens consistently in my experience with high school.

Last year, my child received a poor grade for the quarter and the teacher contacted us with concerns about the student's performance -- this was once the quarter was over.  I asked how does it get to this point?  Shouldn't there have obvious signs the quarter wasn't going well?  Teacher didn't know until after the quarter was done as the grades weren't done until the end of the quarter and she assumed everything was okay since the kid did fine the previous quarter.

Grading should happen consistently and timely throughout a quarter so that kids know where they stand, parents can check in and see what's going on, and teachers know if they need to course adjust.

I don't expect grading to happen instantaneously, but it should happen within a week of an assignment being handed in or a test being completed.

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If you expect assignments to be read and evaluated within a week, please start a group of parents to raise taxes to improve teacher salaries and employ more teachers in order to keep out class sizes lower than 125-150 for Hugh school teachers.  Please so the simple math here.  One minute per student?  3 minutes per student?  Take a guess how long it takes to grade an essay.  Now multiply that by how many students.  Now so the math on time teachers have to do this…with maybe 1-2 hours of unencumbered planning time per WEEK.

I quit being a high school English teacher because I still have nightmares about ungraded stacks of essays, and my last year teaching HS was 1999.  I worked at least 20 hours a week beyond contract time.  It is structurally impossible.  [/quote]

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Yes! A thousand times this!

I’m an English teacher. I have 140 students this year. If you average 10 minutes an essay, that’s over 23 hours of nonstop grading for that assignment ALONE. I don’t get to stop planning, teaching, etc., in order to do that. Therefore, that 23 hours just gets put on top of the 60 hours I regularly work a week.

My students are completing in-class essays on Friday. I used to devote the entire weekend to grading essays so I can get them back on time. That’s working 7am-7pm Saturday AND Sunday, and that’s only if I don’t take any breaks. I can’t do that anymore. I’ll quit first. [/quote]

This is unsustainable and ridiculous. Please tell your admin (AGAIN!) and maybe just maybe after school work groups, committes, and other nonsense will make way for actual time to give feedback to students. [/quote]

While that would be helpful, a better solution would be to lower class sizes. Imagine if that stack of essays only amounted to 80 instead of 140. That’s how we can make real change, both in sustainability for teachers and a better classroom environment for students.

There’s very little school-based admin can do to fix these problems. We need a systemic change in how we view this profession. [/quote]

yes I feel like admin's hands are tied on so many issues. Teachers feel this daily because they feel like there is no where to go for support. I have had wonderful admins who care BUT their hands are constantly tied.[/quote]

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