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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm spending my snow day grading the 230984573908457 late assignments kids handed me friday afternoon that I am required to accept. Some of them are from...October.

I grade work submitted on time within a few days of it being submitted.  I grade late work when I get free time, which lately has been really hard to find. It takes twice as long to grade a bunch of one off late assignments as a stack of 30 on time assignments.

I'm still getting angry emails from parents saying that their kid has 14 missing assignments from this quarter but they swear they turned them in, and why am I not updating them? (Because I'm busy grading the on time work).

But if your child's teacher isn't grading even on time work? Go to the AP in charge of the department. Counselors aren't in supervisory roles. Department chairs certainly aren't in supervisory roles. The AP in charge can get the teacher a sub day if they need that to catch up on grading, or can put pressure on them to catch up if they're just not doing their job. The teachers who are doing their job fully are sick of the ones who aren't.[/quote]

DP and I definitely agree with your last paragraph. I’m grading seven days a week (and that’s not an exaggeration). I’m livid that there are teachers who don’t grade at all. They make my life harder; I have the same students and I have to hear the complaints, knowing I can do nothing about it. And no, it isn’t fair that students do work that isn’t reviewed.

But I’m also livid that I’m grading seven days a week. Those shouldn’t be my choices: work to contract and disappoint my students vs. giving up my outside obligations to grade. [/quote]

I’m tired too. It’s flat out impossible to do this job well in under 50 hours a week. I refuse to half ass a job, so I’m giving it 50 hours…but next year’s intention form is weighing heavy on the back of my mind.[/quote]

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