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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, you do not email their supervisor to tattle on them. What you can do is step in yourself and email the teacher directly. [/quote]

DP. And if they ignore the parent as well? From my experience, teachers who ignore the students, will ignore the parents. Typically, this is an indication of a widespread culture or what they are allowed to do. Sadly, it means administration will most likely ignore you too, or find solutions that don’t make much difference. It is a sad reality at many schools. 
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DP.

I agree with you: this is a sad reality at many schools. It stems from the job’s requirements, though. Teachers aren’t given time at work to grade, meaning that this integral part of their job competes with their home obligations.

Many teachers work around the clock These teachers are burning out and quitting because of the unsustainably of the workload. That leaves the teachers who refuse to work past contract hours, meaning the work doesn’t get done.

The solution to this is to provide time at work for grading, but that’s not a priority to school systems. As long as there are teachers willing to give up home lives and as long as parents don’t complain, this will just continue. [/quote]

DP.  On the whole, I completely sympathize with the workload and unrealistic expectations placed on teachers by admin, students, and parents. That said, my DC also has a teacher this year that hasn't graded anything in months. When the students try to inquire, she tells them that she refuses to discuss grades and that she "doesn't care about grades". The students feel helpless to improve or truly learn the material because they get zero feedback on their work to apply the next time. Meanwhile, their friends taking the same class with different teachers are getting thorough and timely feedback that enables them to learn, improve their scores, and earn higher grades in the class. Further, the teacher spends class time telling the students about how she spends all her free time, her relationship with her significant other, etc. Teachers are MORE than entitled to use their non-working hours however they choose, but my point is that this isn't an issue of struggle to balance personal and professional lives.

I'm hesitant to contact the teacher because I don't want it to backfire on my DC.  This is why many parents consider "going over their heads" when the teacher dismisses the student's efforts at self-advocacy.  (PS - my DC has an A in every other class they take, earned through hard work. So this isn't a situation of "are you sure your kid is telling you the truth"!) Like any profession, some teachers are victims of a very broken system and some just aren't good. Most are the former but it's okay to acknowledge that sometimes it really is the teacher's issue.  [/quote]

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