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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grading and planning days are essential. You can get rid of them if you want but it will be to the detriment of students. Having the day off means we can carefully go through grades and make sure there are no mistakes. It also gives us a few hours to grade stuff. Finally it gives teachers time to reflect and do some planning for future lessons. Take it away and many of us will just hastily throw something together for planning purposes. Think of some of your kids teachers who you like and who do a good job. Good teaching doesn’t just happen. It takes a lot of planning and effort. And trying new things. [/quote]

In HS there are 8 periods. Teachers have classes for 5-6 periods at most. The school day is exactly 7.5hrs.

Most salary employees work 9-10hrs a day. Many catch up at night too.

I think teachers do not get paid well enough and I would argue for more half days for grading. But full days off are not productive in my opinion. You just had 4 days off. There will be a long Spring Break in late March/early April. Being against April 15th is absolutely ridiculous. Could have made it half day easily.

When the teachers and MCPS are not flexible, why should the state be? [/quote]

We may be at work for 7.5, but we are actively ON for 6 of those. This is not time to sit at a desk grading 170 papers or respond to 40 emails. We’re managing 30+ teenagers simultaneously, entertaining, presenting, and putting out fires. For that other 1.5 hours, we’re often called into meetings or covering other classes. So at the end of 7.5 hours, we are emotionally and physically exhausted and we haven’t even gotten a chance to start the other half of our job: planning and grading.

So I agree with the PP above who said that grading and planning time are essential. We rarely get time during our contracted work days to do it, so it’s almost all done on our off hours. And it represents half our job.

I’m not complaining. (I feel the need to write that because teacher explanations are almost always interpreted as complaints.) I’m pointing out the importance of keeping work days. They have an immeasurable impact on morale since they help us get caught up during actual work hours, and higher morale makes better teachers.

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I'm a teacher, too. You know what's bad for morale? Going a whole extra week of school knowing there's not an extra paycheck for it.

And, yes, I know, we've already been paid for our time during the snow day, but that extra time takes away from our chance at supplemental income that many of us plan for. Or takes away from a needed break before starting ESY programs.[/quote]

I also hate it when I am asked to do the job I was hired to do. [/quote]

God, what a whiner you are. Embarrassing for you.[/quote]

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