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[quote=Anonymous]The only thing that's objectionable is not grading assignments in a timely manner, and I don't really believe that she announced that.

Grading late assignments whenever she gets to it is fair--if it wasn't a priority for your student, they don't need the feedback that badly. Part of the problem with late assignments is that with FCPS's late policy, copies of one assignment can stream in for weeks after the due date. So it makes sense to wait until they're all in and grade them all together at that point. And it's incredibly galling to have a student take an assessment late, and then show up the next morning and ask you if you've graded it yet (because they are the center of your universe).

Many of us have office hours after school. Others don't because they have things to do--some have their own children to take care of, some have other jobs, some are studying for advanced degrees...

Your student has an advisory period every other day for the purpose of getting help from teachers. Many students waste that time doing nothing and then scramble like mad around deadlines and make all sorts of demands on teachers' time: "Can I come during your lunch?" "Can I come during your planning period because I have a study hall?" "Can I come on this day after school instead of your office hour days because I won't be in school that day/I have practice/ I have a club meeting/I have whatever..." and if you say yes they might still not show up or come in and tell you that something came up and they can't stay today after all and can they come tomorrow.

You would also be shocked at the number of students who  say things like "I spaced out in class/I wasn't there that day and I need to come in after school so you can reteach me the lesson." I accommodated people like that my first year and learned my lesson, and the answer now is a flat out "no." I had one this year who did nothing for an entire quarter--took no notes, did no homework, bombed everything, and then came to see me and said she wanted me to  "reteach her everything." Needless to say, she has dropped the class.[/quote]

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