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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers teach.  I am a National Board Certified teacher.  We are experts in teaching.  Yet, we are drowning in paperwork. You know what I don't have time to do... paperwork.  Documenting all of the times that I have contacted parents of students who are failing.  Documenting all of the times that I have asked a student to come in at lunch to make up or redo assignments.  Why is it my job to prove that the student turned in Zero assignments? or wrote 2 sentences for their National History Day project that we spent 3 months working on.  Parents have instant access to grades.  Yet, parents complain that they didn't know their kid was failing, because when I tried to call them multiple times, they don't answer the phone or return my call.  When I text them with Remind, they apparently didn't get it.  When I send messages through Synergy or myMCPS Classroom or Outlook, they don't get them.

My planning time over the last 25 years has not changed.  I still get 45 minutes a day to plan, grade, create and copy.  On top of that, I have to fit in parent contact and all of the other paperwork.  Parents complain, so now I have to post all of my lessons online, even if students don't touch the computer in class.  But, I have to do for the student who sat in my class and did nothing in the hopes that they will go home and do the work.  Oh, and I have to fit in all of the IEP paperwork.  Every year, this increases.

I have been teaching for 25 years.  I will be leaving at the end of the year.  You know why?  Paperwork.  And because parents think I am lazy.[/quote]

You're a good teacher. Many teachers don't grade until the end of the quarter. That's a legitimate complaint.[/quote]

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