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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
    [quote]Anonymous wrote:
    Nope. Sorry. Teachers who can’t grade in the time frame required by the district need to figure it out. That’s crucial feedback for learning and not providing it is negligent.

I'm a very hard line on this as well.
Grade on time or you will be hearing from me. [/quote]

I think both of you are missing the point. It's not that teachers don't think work should be graded in a timely manner. It's that teachers should not be THREATENED by parents. In this example, the teacher was threatened immediately by a parent before there was even any evidence that the teacher wasn't grading work promptly. The assumption here--that the teacher is lazy and needs the whip cracked at them in order to work--is outrageous. Imagine if you were treated this way by your clients/co-workers.

If you have a problem with the teacher, by all means approach them. But don't threaten them, and don't approach their boss/the PTA/DCUM before you talk to them.[/quote]

The email was unreasonable, BUT, based on experience, teachers often have plenty of excuses why work isn't graded on time or regularly, which is frustrating. As the teacher in the video notes, parents are not in charge of teachers or their working conditions. We have no control over any factor preventing a teacher from promptly grading work. Whatever the excuse, that doesn't mean that it is unreasonable to expect teachers to grade work regularly. The purpose of grades is to inform students, and by extension, parents, about what students need to work on. Establishing the expectation that parents should accept teachers' work unconditionally or else the teacher will quit reinforces the perception that standards of "professionalism" for teacher differs from the rest of the working world. The system is broken, but the fix should not be that students and parents  accept whatever happens because they are lucky there are warm bodies in the classroom. Why would anyone support increasing teacher salaries if the end product will be the same?[/quote]

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