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[quote=Anonymous]At my school there seem to be meetings just for the sake of meetings. My principal knows how much she can get away with and will schedule every possible meeting she can within that allotted time. There’s no thought to if the meeting is a actually useful or valuable—just that if it’s an available option we have to have it. Collaborative team planning, data chats, team meetings, staff meetings, CPS meetings, PLC meetings, committee meetings, ILT meetings and I’m sure I’m forgetting a few.

So we sit there wondering why we’re sitting at a meeting instead of using the time to do things we actually need to do and just bide the time until it’s over. Some school administrators actually think whether these meetings accomplish anything or not and then decide to have them or not. My principal doesn’t think it through—she just wants to tell her boss that we have all these meetings as though it’s a positive rather than a time suck that everyone resents and is mentally checked out thinking of what we have to do when we’re done with the meeting. At least let us bring grading to complete or laminating to cut during these meetings!! [/quote]

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