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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which is why it makes no sense to not use 4 snow days and two late starts to get grading done. [/quote]

They weren’t being paid to work those days. Stop expecting teachers to be martyrs. [/quote]

I’m a teacher and I completely agree that if they didn’t bring home paperwork or their laptop, then it would be incredibly difficult to grade.

But we were paid for those days, so it doesn’t necessarily count as grading on their own time. In the past 20 years, I’ve taken a few snow days off where I’ve done nothing, but it’s disingenuous to say that working during a snow day is equivalent to being a martyr. [/quote]

But we aren’t paid on Saturdays or Sundays and many of us work weekends. And ultimately: it isn’t about contract hours anyway. It’s about a job that doesn’t give you any time for the major and necessary tasks (like grading and planning).

That’s why this thread exists and all the other ones like it. Teachers could grade in a timely manner if work hours were available for tasks like these. But when we are forcing teachers to choose between grading and their own families, we can’t fault teachers for their choices.
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I would say its generally true that teachers need more grading time.
But in this particular month FCPS teachers were handed four full days and four additional hours (two two hour delays) of unimpeded time. There is no reason the vast majority of teachers couldn't have used some of that free time to catch up on behind work, like any other professional would. [/quote]

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