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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a professor and I've also taught at the high school level.

Ten day turnaround is entirely reasonable. You have to grade them at some point. Why not grade them in a timely fashion so that the student can benefit from the feedback?[/quote]

Can you recommend a way to do that?

Let’s say you have 150 essays. Each will take 15 minutes to score. That’s 37.5 sustained hours of grading for that assignment alone.

If you divide the work by 10 days, including weekends, you are adding 3.75 hours of work to each day. If you give yourself the weekend off, you’re adding 4.7 hours of work to each work day.

You have one planning period. Maybe you can get 40 minutes of grading in.

And that’s just for that one assignment. That doesn’t include emails, data, meetings, planning lessons, meeting with students, running clubs, other assignments, or other duties as assigned.

So, considering the circumstances, can you offer a recommendation? How did you get this done in 10 days? [/quote]

Well said. [/quote]

So, ah, do you guys just NOT GRADE THE PAPERS AT ALL?

You have to grade the papers at some point. It's not like waiting helps!

Explain how letting the work get backed up helps. When DO you grade it? It's not like they give you guys weeks off to grade.[/quote]

Well, I’ll be honest: most of us think it’s unreasonable to give up all of our off-hours to a job. We have families and other obligations.

If schools think grading is important (which it is), then time would be provided during the work week for it. If I have to choose between grading papers and taking care of my family, my family will always win. And that’s as it should be.

I would NEVER tell a person in another profession that their nights and weekends belong to me, that I expect them to put their job first. I would tell them to get another job, one that respects them.

And for all the “MCPS is full” comments: schools are scrambling to find martyrs now, and the door is ever-revolving as people try for a year and realize the job can be miserable. If your goal is just putting a warm body in each classroom, that can be done. If your goal is to put a successful, impactful teacher in each classroom, that can’t.

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Then, find a different way to assign work so you can more easily grade it or find a new job given you are unhappy.  Most jobs require weekends and evenings now.  It sucks but its how it is.[/quote]

What other jobs require almost 24/7 effort from an employee to complete tasks?  Is this something you are going to roll over and accept? This is why unions were created. Let’s not revisit history please.   [/quote]

Are you kidding that you don't know?  Unions are useless.[/quote]

Districts with unions tend to have the highest salaries and best benefits so they attract the best teachers. I remember reading about a ton of teachers leaving one district and going over the state line to another district with a great union. The pay was significantly higher and that meant the schools could actually interview multiple candidates for each position.[/quote]

Outside DC, MCPS is one of the highest paid.  New article came out.
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