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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any teacher that is assigning work this week really loses all right to complain about being overworked and having a poor work/life balance.  The policy was put into place to give teachers ample time to get grades done and if you want to put in 120 last minute grades on the day before the end, thats a you problem.[/quote]

You seem triggered by teachers teaching on an instructional day.  Teachers receive paid non-instructional days to do all the things you’re mentioning.  [/quote]

No, let’s be fair. The paid non-instructional days barely make a dent in the work that needs to be done. I mean, not even a dent. They only mean I can get a bit of the following Saturday to myself since I got a little bit done at work.

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Yes it’s super fair to shortchange kids instructional time because you can’t get your work done according to the schedule you agree to follow under your contract. /s

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Ah, of course. You simply assumed I am shortchanging kids. Anything to insult a teacher, huh?

But one note: if you’re going to throw the contract at me, then note it only pays me for 195 days. I gave you __considerably__ more than that. Are you sure you want to remind me of my contract? [/quote]

Welcome to the working world. Some days people who are employed work more than their agreed upon working hours to get their jobs done. Some days they work less (like you did when you got a bunch of free vacation days this year due to the snow.)[/quote]

Nope. I worked each of those snow days. No vacation here.

Let’s stop the assumptions about my job, okay? I’m not making disparaging comments about your job because I know that would be disrespectful. Why don’t you try showing a sliver of respect to a hard-working teacher instead of finding any possible way to take a stab at me and the profession I care about? [/quote]

That was your choice.  It was “code red” and teachers weren’t allowed to interact with students so this wasn’t instructional time.

Why don’t you show a sliver of respect to other teachers who are actually teaching this week became these are official McPS instructional days and stop pretending like your way is the only way.[/quote]

My way… like teaching every day?

And do you think a teacher’s work ends when we don’t have students in front of us? When do you think we plan? Grade? Respond to emails? Update reports? Discuss lessons with colleagues? All of this happens when we don’t have students in front of us… you know, like snow days.

So once again: stop insulting teachers just for the fun of it. Ticking off hard-working professionals who are doing the work you want them to do seems unproductive. [/quote]

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