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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b] 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.[/b]

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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She sounds like an idiot without a backbone to be honest. If they can’t find a sub, that’s the school’s problem. The teacher is not expected to come in if no sub picks up the job. That has never been the case. Also, it’s very possible they could have found someone the next am. If not, they will often divide the kids up and send them to different rooms for the day. How would she know on Sunday night whether or not the job would or wouldn’t be filled come Monday AM?  Furthermore, teachers are told to have emergency sub plans on hand that any idiot can follow. There was no need for her to actually go to the school to make the lesson plans if she already had emergency plans created like she was supposed to. I guess she didn’t have them created. And seriously, plans can be emailed to a colleague from home anyway. And why was she waiting until the last possible weekend to complete a state mandated training? I’m sure she could have gotten an extension given her visit to the ER. This so called teacher is trying to be a martyr. Nobody forced her to come in.

To be honest this whole story sounds made up. Schools are not even open on Sundays. [/quote]

It's not made up.  She has been a friend of mine for over 20 years and she was teaching in MCPS when I met her (1998).  She is devoted to her students and their well-being.  The school is closed, but there are teachers will access to the buildings outside of school hours; she has access to her school.  The reason she went in last Spring was that several of her coworkers had tested positive for Covid.  There were 3+ teachers (she only mentioned 3, so not sure if there were more) that were out the week prior.  There were NO substitutes available that week, so several teachers were doubling up.  She knew several classes that had 40 children in them because of missing teachers with no subs available and no staff to fill in.  Since the Covid+ teachers were still going to be out on Monday (at the time, they had a 10 day isolation policy), she knew that there would be no subs.  And why didn't she have lesson plans?  Because like the other teacher, she had been working 60 hour weeks just keeping up with the current lesson plans and the grading and the other mandatory work.  Like the other teacher, she had 30 hours of work for 3.5 hours of planning each week for the several weeks prior.  She had emergency lesson plans for early in the school year, but when 3rd quarter rolled around, they were no longer applicable and she had never had enough time to create new ones for the 3rd quarter.  You say "I'm sure she could have gotten an extension to given her visit to the ER." but MCPS said otherwise.

So, based on your responses, you have never worked in the public sector or schools and you make assumptions about what other people can do in their jobs based on your white collar professional jobs where there is a lot more leniency given and applied.  And you hold teachers to a different double standard over what they should do and make assumptions about what they are required to do.  You are one of the toxic parents that are chasing teachers out of the profession.  
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Sweetie, I’m a retired FCPS teacher. I most definitely know what I’m talking about. I’ve had to write plans while sick many times. I never went into the school to do that. Emergency sub plans are applicable for the whole year. It was up to her to have those ready to go. Emergency sub plans include things like writing prompts, mindless packets of busy work or review and periods of time in the day for “reading silently.” They don’t expire just because it’s the “3rd quarter.” They really aren’t hard. And there is no need to go into the actual school to make lesson plans. Everything is digital now. You can write them up at home and email them to someone. As someone who’s taught 20 years, you’d think she would know how to do his stuff in her sleep. Things are recycled every year.

And why did she wait until the last possible weekend to complete her training?[/quote]

Different poster (not the one with the anecdote) here.

Teachers who are condescending and rude to their fellow teachers really are among the worst humans. This anecdote was about a teacher who cared and felt trapped. She was sick and STILL wanted to leave meaningful plans. You say that sub plans should be "mindless packets of busy work." Parents on this thread, the very ones who are screaming that teachers should work all day on Sundays, would NOT be satisfied with your "mindless packets." I'm a teacher who doesn't give "mindless packets." Instead, I leave sub plans that are relevant to recent lessons and reinforce what is currently being taught. Yes, that takes extra work. Being a good teacher takes a TON of extra work. That anecdote shows the lengths one teacher felt she had to go to perform her job properly. For you to come in with your "recycled" plans that can be regurgitated "in... sleep" is not helpful.

- A sick teacher on leave today STILL working 8-10 hours

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