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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of my students didn't get me the information I requested and only sent me the common app link in the last few days.
It's the end of the quarter and I've spent every evening grading and am not finished. 
What do they expect?[/quote]

Here's the difference: they're kids and you are an adult. Doing these recs is an important part of your JOB.  It's not ok to have kids stress out all weekend wondering if the adult in the process has completed their work.  Sounds like passive-aggressive teacher "I'm in control" BS.  Teachers should have their recs in.[/quote]

Wow! Are you always this obnoxious in real life. Keep harassing the teachers and your kid will end up with a crappy recommendation.[/quote]
Recommendation letters are explicitly part of a counselor’s job. They are not actually a listed and required task for teachers. We don’t have time set aside to write letters - it’s on personal time (or we do it during planning, but then use personal time to plan and grade.) Teachers agree to write letters because they get to know kids and want to help them, but are not obligated to. Some teachers don’t write any, some will only do the first 10 who ask, some will only write for kids they know well, some will write for almost everyone except the entitled kid with entitled parents like PP.

Everyone understands that this is a stressful time for students. But don’t dump your anxiety on people who are trying to help you out.[/quote]

I totally get the teacher perspective and am grateful because I know they already have a full time job.  My beef is really with the colleges because it is a really crappy system that someone puts these kids in a terrible situation.  DS friend has 2 B's in all of high school and 34 on ACT and had three teachers say no - they didn't know him well enough to recommend. IT WAS COVID and 50% of boys are shy with teachers -- what were they going to schedule extra Zoom meetings with the teachers, 16 year old boys, yea right.  This is really a weird dynamic at a large public high school to have to get multiple teachers to write recommendations --- there is only one AP World History and Calculus BC teacher in the school.  Stupid IMO. Test optional should have been test and recommendation optional  [/quote]

I agree--my (very shy) DC was remote all last year.  Barely knew teachers.  Still asked two teachers for recommendations last spring like they were supposed to.  Guess what?  One of those teachers didn't return to the school (along with half of their other 11th grade teachers)...so had to scramble...choice was to ask one of their current teachers (who they have only had for a couple of months) or go back to 10th grade teachers (many of whom have left and those who are still here may or may not really remember them).
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