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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am floored by teachers who think late grading is defensible. It's a fundamental requirement of the job.[/quote]

You haven't been paying attention.  There are now 130% fundamental requirements of the job.  If a person is only willing to give 110-120% of their contracted time to the job, what gives?  It's easier to take a pass on things like entering grades into the on-line portal than to skip mandatory meetings, skip state mandated testing requirements, skip state and federal disability management (like meetings for IEPs, 504s), and so on.

There are only so many hours in a week and at a certain point, teachers give up.  I know many who work 60 hour work weeks and have to stop so that they can take care of their own families or their own health.  I know one teacher who had a chronic health issue, went to the ER, was admitted on a Friday night.  On Sunday after getting discharged, instead of going home to rest as she was instructed, she drove to school so that she could work on lesson plans for Monday.  She was given a form from the hospital that said she was excused from work for 3 days to recover, but she ignored it because there was no sub lined up and no sub available for Monday.  So she drove to school, did her lesson plans and caught up on state mandated training that had to be completed by Monday and finally late at night Sunday, drove home to eat a quick microwave dinner and collapse into bed for 6 hours so that she could get up and get to school on time.

So, what parts of state and district mandated work do you want the teacher to give up to be able to spend 1 hour entering grades into Canvas for parents to see?  My friend graded things and handed the papers back to the kids, but she just didn't enter the results into Canvas.

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