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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was a problem five years when we had HS students in FCPS. I see nothing has changed. [/quote]

Things have gotten much, much worse for teachers.

The workload has piled to such astronomical heights at this point that even the most experienced teachers with the biggest bag of tricks can’t keep up.

Several teachers have sincerely tried to explain the workload. These aren’t complaints. They are illustrations that explain why grading is challenging and why so many teachers are leaving the profession.

But DCUM continues to be DCUM. Any time a thread is about teachers, posters with no experience with teaching complain about how teachers should get it done. If teachers have it so easy, why aren’t there major lines of people fighting for each opening? [/quote]

It seems to me, given the teacher shortages, that what help can be more easily provided, would be administrative. Why do teachers have to do all the grading and entering in gradebooks? Maybe have a shared resource for each subject that can help with grading, and entering stuff?  Wouldn't that free the teachers up to spend more time on their lesson plans and meetings where they have to be involved?[/quote]

+100 
Honestly having specific things to advocate for - like shifting grading & grade entering & copying to admin support staff roles & pushing for $ for that - would be concretely useful. I agree that it seems teaching has become impossible lately but the specifics on how to return it to possible are less clear. [/quote]

I'm wondering if this can even be done by volunteers, although that can be a bit fraught. Maybe parent volunteers can do it for teachers that don't teach their own kids or HS kids can do it as their service hours, especially for middle/elementary grades. [/quote]

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