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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an English teacher. I provide a ton of meaningful feedback. It’s actually the #1 reason I am thinking of leaving the profession after 18 years of successful teaching.

I agree with the parents here. Yes, written feedback is very important. That’s why I do it. Unfortunately, feedback on one set of essays can take me 30 hours. I don’t get ANY time to grade at work, so that is done in the evenings, all day Saturday, and all day Sunday. It isn’t unusual for me to work 7 10-hour days a week. This isn’t exaggeration. It’s the only way I can get that feedback to students quick enough to make it matter.

I have my own family. My own children are growing up without a mom since my head is always bent over papers for 10 months of every year. It isn’t worth it.

I’m planning on quitting. It isn’t pay or student behavior driving my decision. It’s the grading and the system’s lack of respect for my time. [/quote]

But this has been your entire career so why is this year somehow different? Class sizes haven't changed. Your colleagues obviously do not grade this way. I don't get why there are teaches on here saying they are the one truly good English teacher thinking of leaving but somehow they have no actual agency to do anything through their school. They are just puppets who apparently slaved away for years while their colleages left at the bell but now due to some who knows what issue that just magically came about, because we know SOL's went away for the most part especially the writing ones, they are now ready to leave. It's all just smoke and mirrors. It's just another teacher who never did any of this work just making up stories to leave so they can feel better about themselves. If this were a real case they would be able to document how anything changed and why this year is so terrible and what they did to help make change that didn't work. Class size hasn't changed. Assessments have been less not more. SOL's less not more. Homework less not more. Everything is less.[/quote]

You are incorrect in nearly every sentence you typed. It’s actually quite impressive.[/quote]

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