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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.[/quote]

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have [i]any[/i] concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing. [/quote]

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.[/quote]

I’m a different teacher.

Administration would not see this teacher as “amazing” and “wonderful.” We are evaluated on how productively we use our class time, not on how cool and casual we are.

And I’m going to be honest with you as someone with 25 years of experience texting. Students weren’t spending 30 minutes catching up on work. They were relaxing, catching up on shows or time with friends.

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