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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see this issue similar to a PCP Medical professionals.  They have x number of patients each day at a fixed salary.  But on top of your obligatory face to face time, there are insane amount of documentations, answering messages, answering calls, and meetings.  Notes and documentations take a lot of time and need to be done in a timely manner or you don’t get paid — there are consequences.  If not finish at work, you bring it home.  At the end of the day, you do your job because you love it, no one likes paperwork.  Burn out happens and that’s when one decide to quit or change career/retire.[/quote]

+1 on this.  Complaining and not grading and trying to explaining it away ad nauseum is tiring. As a person, I would rather fulfill the duties of my job (grading on time) than trying to scapegoat endlessly.[/quote]

I don’t understand why parents complain on this forum where you won’t get results.  If a teacher hasn’t graded any work all quarter, if you’ve reached out to the teacher at least once and nothing was done, why don’t you email the principal, the AP responsible for the relevant department, and your child’s counselor?  My high school requires teachers to enter a certain number of formative and summative grades per quarter, and our APs check our grade books during the quarter 
to make sure we are on track.  [/quote]

Because that would out a target on our children’s backs. Once the teacher gets wind of who complained, game over.[/quote]

I’m a teacher. Please don’t assume I’m some terrible monster. I’m simply trying to keep from drowning. I know I’m behind and I can’t help it. If you email me, you’re going to get a huge, sincere apology and I’m going to put that assignment at the top of my to-do list. (Pushing other late staff down, but that can’t be helped. There’s too much and not enough hours.) I’m not going to take it out on your child. If anything, I’m simply going to thank them for being patient. [/quote]

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