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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me get this straight: you are blaming the teacher because your kid is getting a low-grade?[/quote]

Way too many teachers in FCPS suck, don't grade on a timely basis, and don't provide meaningful feedback over the course of a quarter.  It's sad because it wasn't always this way in FCPS, but the quality of teachers has gone way down and some of these people absolutely would not last more than a few weeks in a typical job.

The only thing that's suspect about OP's post is that it's now past the end of the second quarter so it seems like OP ought to have known there was an issue with the teacher and with her kid's performance prior to now (unless the teacher did their job in the first quarter and then just dropped the ball in Q2).  [/quote]

I’ll fight this battle all over DCUM. I’ve been teaching for 2 decades. The quality of teachers hasn’t gone down. The job has become 3 times harder, and I am not exaggerating. Teachers are accountable for more students, more tasks, more meetings, more IEPs, more discipline referrals… and if all has to get done in considerably less time than we used to get. Imagine getting 3 hours out of a 40 hour week to do half hour job. That’s teaching.

Want things back in a timely manner? Then advocate for more teacher planning time and smaller classes.

People are fleeing from this field because the job isn’t sustainable. Few people are coming to fill the vacancies. This trend will continue until working conditions are corrected.

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Yes, you've been repeating yourself all over DCUM.  It doesn't get any more convincing each time you post it.  [/quote]

I’m going to stick up for my profession. I’m tired of posters attacking teachers.

Perhaps I’m not convincing you. That’s fine. Maybe there’s a more reasonable person out there who cares about what’s driving the teacher shortage. [/quote]

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