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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are really nasty at times and quite full of themselves. They never want to encourage/help kids and it is really sad. Writing that letter would not have hurt the teacher. Have come across some really nasty teachers in DDs school as well[/quote]

Do you know how much “free time” a teacher has? Very little. Planning time plus tons of meetings plus grading—most go far above and beyond their paid work hours.

How many personally tailored recommendation letters does a teacher have time to write? If a teacher gets asked to write 30 letters and it takes 15 minutes per letter to write and submit, that’s almost 8 hours of unpaid time. If they have family at home that’s taking time away from their family.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to have a limit on how many recs they write, and perhaps the op assumes that they wouldn’t write it because of the absences, but it may have been something else. Maybe the student was unkind or something else. It’s more than just “there are nasty teachers out there”[/quote]

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