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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everyone fixated on student sending an email on weekend? The emails were sent on Tuesday and Wednesday.[/quote]

Right.  So the teacher worked 10 hours on Tuesday with more urgent issues than the child’s email and responded to the 15 emails she could get to before she had to make dinner for her family, get back to grading more papers, and then out her child to bed.  The next day she arrived to school to an inbox with 15 more emails from overnight.  She taught her 8 hours, got to her desk after school, finished what she could to get ready for tomorrow, and faced 30 more emails plus the ones she didn’t get to last night.  She triaged among those 50 emails and answered those that were the most urgent or were from admin.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

There is no catching up with that kind of volume plus teaching a full day.  The email was not that urgent.  If it is, please send again.  If you’re halfway decent, maybe say, “Dear Mrs. Smith, I know you are super busy and I’ve tried to figure this out by calling the student help desk but they couldn’t help me, and I asked a couple of friends and they didn’t know either.  Could you please take a look at my email from Tuesday?  I haven’t been able to figure it out yet. Thanks so much and I hope you had a good weekend!
All the best,
Appreciative Kid[/quote]

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