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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are different deadlines.

Also realize that LORs are getting done during evenings and weekends; teachers receive no break from their over-scheduled days to complete these letters, and many of us have 40-50 to write.

Counselors are meeting with and submitting materials for hundreds of students.

The work is getting done.[/quote]

Most schools require teacher recommendation requests to be made last April and May so these aren’t last minute requests. Counselors should offer hours in August so they can get a head start. Our school didn’t start the counselor process until midSeptember which is crazy. My sympathy is limited given it is a known part of the job. [/quote]

I’m going to correct this for you. [b]No, recommendation letters are not part of my job. They are mentioned nowhere in my very detailed contract, not even by vague reference. I am fully within my rights to refuse every single request. I don’t do that because I have respect for my students and I want to help them achieve their goals. [/b]

And yes, perhaps requests are supposed to be made in May. I get many in September because students miss deadlines. And even if they are requested in May, I am literally not at work from June-August; I’m between contracts and unpaid. So you are telling me that I should write letters when I’m essentially not employed by the school.

We expect teachers to stretch to the limits for their students, working an absurd number of unpaid hours. And perhaps you have limited sympathy. Trust me, we know. And yet somehow we continue to give, give, give, give to ungrateful people because that expectation is, as you say, “a known part of our job.”[/quote]

Sending all teachers genuine gratitude for taking on the college LOR job for it is such a significant one. There is obviously a problem with the overall process though. [b]If it is not part of a teacher's employment contract[/b], yet it is an annual demand on their time than the problem becomes between the school systems and their teachers. This is an issue that needs to be addressed.

But it is also unfair to the students who are directly told by their counselors to ask teachers for recommendations. The student is only doing what they are told and need to do yet they are getting caught in the middle of this issue. It isn't the students' fault. And if teachers agree to write a LOR and tell the student they will (and again, genuine gratitude given to those teachers that do), then those teachers should fulfill their promise in a timely matter which is really tough given how many other demands they have on their time.[/quote]

IF??? This tells me you haven’t been paying attention at any point in your life either as a student or parent. The fact that recommendations are written outside of contract hours has been common knowledge. It comes up during contract negotiations and strikes.

The fact that people don’t know this shows how clueless many are about the education system.

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