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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principals suck. They will support their staff over a student/parent. I’ve rarely had a good interaction even if I was right.  [/quote]

Sure.  I bet you love it if your boss throws you under the bus.[/quote]

You do what’s right you don’t just support the teacher, the schools should be about the kids not like running a business. [/quote]

Maybe what's right is supporting the teacher?[/quote]

Why should the principal support the teacher in not updating the grade book?  A disciplinary issue where there could be differences of opinion I could understand, but updating the grade book seems pretty clear cut to me.

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Then you aren't aware of the realities of teaching nowadays.  140 students.  If I spend just 2 minutes on each child's assignment, that is 2.5 hours of work.  Most substantive assignments need at least 5 minutes per student.  I have (technically) 5 hours of planning time per week and 4 preps (that's 4 different subjects to prepare for).  At least two planning times per week are taken up with meetings (IEP, team, parent, etc.)

So that leaves me with 3 hours per week for planning and grading.  But I have over 50 emails a day on average.  And I have to work on documenting behaviors, interventions, progress monitoring, and common assessment data to our data wall.  On top of that, I get a tsunami of late work and re-takes at the end of every quarter.

So it's not that clear cut.  I woke 60-70
Hour weeks most weeks, and even then I might not update the grade book some weeks.  If I have statutory deadlines for paperwork and IEP meetings and evaluation, updating my grade book has to be triaged way past all that and the MOST important of mg
Y time: planning challenging and engaging instruction for your kids.  So yeah...grade book is not that high a priority. [/quote]

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