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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least at my child’s high school, lunch for the teachers is not considered a planning time. There is close to an hour for students and of that 30 minutes is available for students to go into any teachers and get help or use their extended time accommodation. There were years when my daughter would spend almost every day with her math teacher, as she would really struggled with that. Another year, my son spent a lot of time with his English teacher because he needed extra help with his writing and really strives to do his best. I was actually always really impressed with how willing teachers were to spend time with them.

Is it not like this at all schools? One child graduated this year and my other child last year so this is all very recent information.[/quote]

Not in MCPS. [/quote]

That’s the case at WJ.  It’s not great for either teachers or kids because the kids don’t get to eat lunch if they missed school due to illness -/ lunch is used to make up missed assignments.  [/quote]

It's like this at Einstein as well.[/quote]

At Einstein, it depends on the teacher.  We've only had a few teachers available at lunch.  They often have a free day in class and that's when they do the make up or weeks later.  We've only had a few that are willing to provide help at lunch.  Most refuse.[/quote]

Listen... your bratty little kid needs to turn their work in on time. The teacher did their job: your kid got taught, got the assignment, got the deadline. If they blew it, tough. This BS about how teachers need to spend their lunch breaks giving your gobshite kid twelve extra chances to do their work is absolute nonsense, and I say this as someone whose kid spent the better part of this past semester being exactly this sort of flaky, slacking gobshite. I let them get the grades they deserved. They learned.

Actions have consequences. If you blow off your duties at your job, do you expect your boss to give up their lunch break to accommodate make ups? Of course not! That would be absurd. Which is why it's equally absurd that we're giving highschoolers a false sense of security in their slacking. Do the work the right way, the first time, and there's no trouble.

And if you're talking about "help" needed to actually do the work, maybe your kid needs to drop down a level, or get a tutor, or both. Again, not the teacher's job to make sure your kid is prepared and supported. That's our job as the parents. Discipline and support structures are PARENT responsibilities, so quit shifting them to the already-overburdened teachers. [/quote]

If someone at work is having trouble with the assignment, I expect them to
reach out for help. I expect the person who was solicited to make time and with them.  I hate when people make half analogies. If you are going to compare school to work, then follow through. [/quote]

A peer, sure. But even that only goes so far. And if it's an occasional and reciprocal "hey, I was out. can you help me get caught up?" that's very different from knowing that Stacy was online, shopping all day, and Steve comes in hungover and unprepared for the job he probably padded his resume to get, and being expected to make time to help them do what they could've and should've done for themselves.

Since you needed it spelled out for you...[/quote]

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