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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about a rule where teachers and admin need to respond to parents within three days.  We have teachers and admin who clearly read the messages and don’t respond.  How about teachers needing to consistently post assignments online so parents know what’s going on.   How about teachers grade within a week so kids know how they are doing?   We have teachers who still have not graded or posted in a month.   Not ok.  Kids can only be successful if teachers also put in the effort. [/quote]

Most teachers are putting in the effort.  But that effort requires time.  We’ve done this math multiple times but here it is again: 
150 students x 5min an assignment =750mins / 60mins in an hour = 12.5 hours .  Thats the total time to grade one assignment.  If a teacher got one class period free per day let’s say 47mins x 5 days =235 mins /60 =3.9 hours.  That’s how much time they had in their work week to potentially grade. There other 8.6 hours comes from their personal life.[/quote]

This. I have to put in a full day on Saturday doing school stuff and I still can’t manage a one week turnaround on grading. Administrators and parents forget that planning lessons takes a long time especially if you want high quality, engaging lessons that reflect the present time. [/quote]

And that’s for a five min assignment. My course is writing heavy. Our easiest to grade assignments take at least 15 min.

If I have to turn around every assignment in 10 days, I have to radically change what I assign. [/quote]

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