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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former FCPS teacher. This has to be a troll post, but I'm happy to address what's been discussed across this thread.

Though not the majority, there ARE certainly teachers who are this lazy about posting grades and won't update for months. I don't recall if this is blatantly against policy, but at the very least it's against the guideline of one week turnaround time. Since I could see students' gradebooks for all classes, I had a good idea of which teachers were d!(king around, and it pissed me off because it makes teachers as a whole look bad. Unfortunately, guidelines and policies are only as good as admin's willingness to hold their teachers to them.

As to teacher quality, there is still a decent number of dedicated, intelligent, highly professional teachers keeping at it, no matter how hard the job has gotten. But let's face it - the bar to entry in teaching has always been pretty low, and with the exodus over recent years, has only gotten lower as districts take more desperate measures to fill positions (e.g. the teacher trainee program). As more underqualified people replace veterans, yes, on average the quality will drop.

But I have to laugh at anyone saying that teachers couldn't hack it in a "typical" job. Having been blindsided by the laziness and unprofessionalism that abounds in the "real world," I would say that many of the laziest teachers would do just fine.

I'm literally sitting here on the job, posting on DCUM, making more than teaching, while practically begging my manager for something relevant to do. Either my job isn't "typical," or people just have way overinflated opinions of what they do.[/quote]

I posted something similar on this board about post teaching jobs. I got a job when I left teaching a couple years ago made $25,000 more than I made as a teacher. I probably worked about 3 hours a day. I spent so much time listening to podcasts, taking hour lunches with co-workers, given weeks to finish a project that would take about 40 hours. I was bored out of my mind every day.

I now do a related job at home so at least when I have hours of free time, I can get things done around the house.[/quote]

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