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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach over 100 students as a part time teacher, but McPS is only bound to provide me with 36 minutes/day of planning time. I’m sorry I needed to wait until I had 5 1/2 hours of uninterrupted grading/planning time to finish grading for the quarter. Teacher work conditions = student learning conditions[/quote]

If kids don't know how they are doing throughout its hard to know what's going on.  You are making excuses and it's not ok to grade at the last minute.  It hurts kids.[/quote]

DP here. 
It’s also not okay for a teacher to get 36 minutes a day to plan lessons, grade papers, respond to emails, update data, eat lunch, attend meetings, etc.

When you aren’t given time at work to complete important functions of your job, then your workplace is telling you those tasks aren’t important.

If we care about up-to-date grade books, then time for that task should actually be built into the school day.

Until it is, grades are competing with a teacher’s other responsibilities, including their own children and household obligations.[/quote]

Exactly! This is why private school is so enticing. Way more planning time AND smaller class sizes.[/quote]

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