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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ Has this always been how it is in the teaching profession…or has something changed to make it harder to grade? For the teachers responding that have taught for the last 25 years…have you been doing this crazy work life balance that long? Or has something changed? ”

This is the fundamental question. What’s been added to teachers’ plates now that parents could try to lobby gets taken back off to create time for grading. [/quote]

Open enrollment. I now have kids sitting in class who have zero business being there. While I used to be able to plan a lesson for algebra 2, I now have to plan a regular version, a modification for kids who still can’t factor despite spending a month on it in algebra 1, repeating it throughout the year in geometry, and getting another month of it in algebra II, and spend the whole “independent work time” sitting with the kids who got Ds in geometry but chose algebra II over afda because “it looks better for college”.

then, because all those kids are so far over their heads, I have a full house during the 4th period remediation block. Can’t grade papers then because I’m working with those kids who legitimately are trying, but just don’t have prealgebra foundations. How do I teach you to graph a rational polynomial function when you cannot factor (because that requires knowing multiplication facts), graph an ordered pair, make a table of values to match a function, know what a y intercept is, know that the x intercept is when y is 0, or even know right from left? (Talking about end behavior of a function feels like kindergarten some days. Me: “Okay, you’re riding a roller coaster to the LEFT. Are you going up or down?” Them: “How can you be going up? You said left!” “Wait, which way is left?” “Are negative numbers left or right?”)

I wish that there were placement tests, teacher recommendations were more than just a casual suggestion, and that you needed a C or better to move to the next level now that we have the 50% policy. Kids can literally get 0 on every assessment in assignment in algebra 1 but if they do a few homework’s or class works they get a D and move on. That’s so. Much. Work. For the next year’s teacher to try to backfill that many holes.[/quote]

I’m laughing because only another math teacher could relate to your reference.  I’ve been up front with so many examples, pointing up along the graph and just asking…is it going up or down?   And some say each or they don’t know.   It’s really how it is these days.  [/quote]

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