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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some will not will respond at all.  Normal is 2-3 days. [/quote]

That's where you know mcps has crap admins. If you work any other job and decide not to respond to emails, you can kids your ass goodbye but it's 50/50 any given teacher will decide to respond to your email.. especially middle and high school level.[/quote]

High school teacher here.

I have less than an hour a day to plan, grade, eat lunch, attend meetings, answer emails, call parents, go to the bathroom, update data, etc. I have 140 students and I’m inundated with emails all day long. Yes, they pile up until I get a chance to breathe and then answer them. That usually happens between 10-12pm every night.

Yes, I respond to emails within 48 hours. But let’s not pretend it’s laziness on the part of the teachers. We are doing the work of 2-3 people with limited time and resources. [/quote]

I am also a teacher who is inundated with emails.  Honestly, it is low on my list of priorities.  There are some emails that I ignore.  For instance, 'my child said they turned in an assignment (two hours ago), why does it say that is still missing'.  Parents can ignore my emails, so I feel like I might as well do the same.  Something has to go.  [/quote]

A lot of assignments don't show up as turned in and some of us are trying to make sure our kids do the assignments and turn them in as they wouldn't if we didn't hold them accountable.  If you set it to show it was submitted and graded within a reasonable time frame.  Or even sent out a bulk email to parents if the assignment wasn't done that would help.  Or, a email saying what the assignments are this week, especially the paper ones with a pdf of the assignment as kids lie.  I've never ignored a teacher's email and if they have a concern about my kid it is handled at home promptly, behavior addressed, consequences and an apology to the teacher (which you probably don't get if you don't read emails).[/quote]

DP. I love these suggestions. As a parent of a high-needs kid with executive functioning struggles, I’d love to know when assignments aren’t submitted. As it is, I usually find out 2 weeks later when the zero is put in the gradebook.

But I’m also a teacher. I know that my DS’s teacher is spending her day trying to stay upright, slammed with 100 different demands for her time and energy. I know her first true break is at the end of the school day, when she can take stock of the many, many things she needs to do at home to get ready for the chaos of the next day.

A teacher/mom wrote me a couple of years ago about her DD’s grade in my class. She started by acknowledging my workload and saying she didn’t need a reply. She then shared her concern, and ended with a “thank you for taking a look at this when you get the chance!” I felt a great sense of gratitude because she gave me just one task (fixing an error in my gradebook) instead of two (the gradebook and an email). I was able to get it done quicker, too.

This is now how I write every email to my own kids’ teachers. I suspect they feel the same relief that a reply isn’t necessary. When you get 50+ emails a day and no time to respond, it makes a difference. [/quote]

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