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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that if this responsibility is added, then  FCPS needs to find a way for planning. Just know elementary teachers have had no planning for years and years with their duties. But monitoring students is necessary for safety and needs to happen. Students are afraid to use the restroom, and they avoid restrooms at school. Students are being assaulted, vaping, and more- and FCPS has swept it under the rug. Students need to be safe and secure at school, and they have not been.  [/quote]

Elementary school got their planning this year in the collective bargaining agreement. No one disagrees that it has been needed for years.  But the solution isn't just to shift the workload to secondary teachers.[/quote]

Yes, and also: 
Please don’t make this an elementary vs. high school debate. The high school teachers have an absurd amount of work, too… and very little time to do it. That’s not exclusively an elementary problem. [/quote]

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I teach eighth grade English. This year, I have 147 students in English, as well as 20 in my Mascot Time section.

I expect that our eighth grade students will write no fewer than 6 full-length essays, complete 2 performance-based projects, and take all assessments in short-answer format. If I spend 10-15 minutes grading each essay, thats between 1470 and 2205 minutes (or between 24.5 and 36.75 hours) of grading [u]per essay[/u]. For the essays alone, [b]not including PBAs and assessments[/b], I'm looking at 8820 to 13230 minutes  (147 to 220.5 hours) of grading essays throughout the year.

When you add in planning, updating Schoology, making copies, answering emails, meeting with students for remediation, writing and grading retakes, documenting IEP data, attending meetings, writing teacher narratives, writing teacher recommendations, and completing all the other tasks we must do, it's an absurd amount of work.

It is definitely not an issue exclusive to elementary school.[/quote]

Years ago, I worked in a state that passed a law that a secondary English teacher could have no more than 100 students because of the time spent on grading writing.  Makes sense to me.[/quote]

The National Council of Teachers for English (NCTE) recommends no more than 100 students.

I had 170 one year. I usually hover around 150.

One stack of essays can easily take 30 uninterrupted hours to grade. It all happens at home since there’s no time at work.

A stack of papers lives on my lap from September to June. [/quote]

Don't forget you have to get an additional teaching contact if you have over 150 students.[/quote]

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