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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My school takes away my two planning periods a day. One is used for useless meetings to disseminate info that would more efficiently conveyed by email if they dared to put those directives in writing. The other is taken by covering classes because there aren’t subs. The expectation is that teachers will do this unpaid at home, but also complete recommendations, forms for IEPs or 504s, and plan for multiple preps. If a teacher falls behind in grading, it probably isn’t laziness. It’s probably triage.[/quote]

This is why.  There just isn't enough time in the day.  45 minutes a day is what teachers 'hopefully' have.  In that 45 minutes, teachers have to: plan, set up Canvas/make copies, complete IEP/504 reports, grade, make phone calls to parents of students who are failing (this could end up taking all 45 minutes, it isn't just Hi, your kid is failing, bye), respond to emails/messages (check Canvas, Google, Outlook, Remind, Synergy)... The list goes on and on.  I got an email from a parent - my kid has an A in class but didn't not get Consistently for their class participation. Why did you mark my kid late? (well he came to class late...) Every time I have to respond to an email like that it takes away from all of the things on my list.

OP - if you want it to change don't blame the teacher, blame MCPS and the system.  Teachers have been supplementing the education system with all of the unpaid labor and unreimbursed supplies.  We can't continue like this.  Advocate for ensuring we have time in our day to not only plan the lessons but grade and provide feedback.  Until we get that, assignments will go ungraded.  And I will add that Synergy is horrible this year.  I push the sync button in Canvas and wait and wait and wait and wait.  Maybe grades will appear in Synergy, but maybe not. Since, I pushed the Sync button, I assume that the grades actually sync'd.  It isn't until a kid asks why isn't it showing up, that I realize oh, they didn't actually sync. Join the thread to advocate for a new grading program.  But again this is not the teachers fault.  It just compounds the time spent on trying to get the grades in Synergy, which reduces the time we actually have to grade.  [/quote]

Best thing I’ve read on DCUM:
“Teachers have been supplementing the education system with all of the unpaid labor and unreimbursed supplies.” So true.

I’ll be grading most of the weekend. Again. Using supplies I purchased, including the  paper I gave to the students. [/quote]

If teachers were to adhere to their "duty day" the school system would be in a world of trouble. Education is a shared responsibility but in the last decade, educators have become the one-stop shop for all of the needs of all of the students. In addition to the laundry list of responsibilities shared ^ above, we are also asked to communicate with families in their home language, consider and respond to mental and behavioral health issues, address food insecurity, compensate for lack of background knowledge, etc. *****To the parents who show support and appreciation for nurturing your children, I am grateful.**** To the complainers, I wonder how they would receive the negativity if someone were allowed to go into their workplace - untrained and without knowledge of the demands and job - to judge, criticize, and lodge their complaints at every turn at every whim. More and more students are coming without the basics and schools are becoming more than the schoolhouse of ye olden days. Teaching content seems like a luxury when I am able to focus on that.[/quote]

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