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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mean to be snarky, but a lot of jobs have to work over the 40 hours contracted per week, many at home after work hours. It’s part of the job for many jobs, but why is it most complained about by teachers. That’s what I don’t understand. Can someone please educate me?

Because teachers aren’t paid the same way those other jobs were there are expectations of working at home. Teachers are notoriously underpaid. And in fact many do work out of contract hours.

Also, you are worried about your single child. The teacher had to work — and grade — every student in the class.

Also, it’s the beginning of the session. I don’t know why you expect there to be so much work right away.

Right, they are paid much better than social workers, public health nurses, etc who are required to have masters and definitely don’t work 8 hours except the bad ones. They get 10 months vs 12 months and higher pay and benefits.

Anonymous wrote:My child who is a junior has an AP English teacher who has graded ONE assignment for the month of January input in ParentVUE. This teacher is notorious for having so few assignments, Dec had 4 assignments total. I keep thinking she will do better, but that doesn’t seem to be true.

It’s hard for my child to get a good grade or good feedback when this is the case.

I am new to the school system in the US. Is this something to complain about? If so,who would I complain to? Also forgot to Mention this is a magnet program.

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Anonymous wrote:MD teachers also are required to have Master’s degrees.

Nope.

Anonymous wrote:MD teachers also are required to have Master’s degrees.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mean to be snarky, but a lot of jobs have to work over the 40 hours contracted per week, many at home after work hours. It’s part of the job for many jobs, but why is it most complained about by teachers. That’s what I don’t understand. Can someone please educate me?

These aren’t complaints. They are explanations.

And while it is true that many jobs require extra hours, I’m comfortable arguing that teaching is a unique blend of challenges. (And no, I’m not saying it’s harder than all other jobs. Just unique.)

It’s a combination of a sensory-overloaded day on your feet, presenting to an often disengaged and/or disruptive audience (and sometimes hostile). This drains your energy and patience. It’s dealing with tragedies and trauma that students bring to school with them, which drains your emotions. It’s being directly held responsible for the outcomes in your classroom, even though you can’t control most of the variables. This drains your optimism and will to remain in the job.

And then it’s the end of the day and you had no time to plan lessons, answer emails, grade papers, etc. So it all goes in a bag and you spend 3 hours that night getting ready for tomorrow, even though you’re exhausted from the pressure of that day.

And again: this is not a complaint. But I will say that the many people have no idea what a teacher faces. You see what we show you, but you don’t see the teachers crying in cars. There are many reasons we have such turnover, and I see it getting worse. We’ve lost multiple teachers mid-year this year, which didn’t used to happen often.

And again: not a complaint.

Of course you should be held responsible. We have some good teachers, meh teachers and bad. For our straight a student this year we’ve had to hire multiple tutors as the teachers aren’t teaching. One teacher is absent more than there. They can do online homework with auto correct. We have several teachers who do.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mean to be snarky, but a lot of jobs have to work over the 40 hours contracted per week, many at home after work hours. It’s part of the job for many jobs, but why is it most complained about by teachers. That’s what I don’t understand. Can someone please educate me?

Because teachers aren’t paid the same way those other jobs were there are expectations of working at home. Teachers are notoriously underpaid. And in fact many do work out of contract hours.

Also, you are worried about your single child. The teacher had to work — and grade — every student in the class.

Also, it’s the beginning of the session. I don’t know why you expect there to be so much work right away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mean to be snarky, but a lot of jobs have to work over the 40 hours contracted per week, many at home after work hours. It’s part of the job for many jobs, but why is it most complained about by teachers. That’s what I don’t understand. Can someone please educate me?

These aren’t complaints. They are explanations.

And while it is true that many jobs require extra hours, I’m comfortable arguing that teaching is a unique blend of challenges. (And no, I’m not saying it’s harder than all other jobs. Just unique.)

It’s a combination of a sensory-overloaded day on your feet, presenting to an often disengaged and/or disruptive audience (and sometimes hostile). This drains your energy and patience. It’s dealing with tragedies and trauma that students bring to school with them, which drains your emotions. It’s being directly held responsible for the outcomes in your classroom, even though you can’t control most of the variables. This drains your optimism and will to remain in the job.

And then it’s the end of the day and you had no time to plan lessons, answer emails, grade papers, etc. So it all goes in a bag and you spend 3 hours that night getting ready for tomorrow, even though you’re exhausted from the pressure of that day.

And again: this is not a complaint. But I will say that the many people have no idea what a teacher faces. You see what we show you, but you don’t see the teachers crying in cars. There are many reasons we have such turnover, and I see it getting worse. We’ve lost multiple teachers mid-year this year, which didn’t used to happen often.

And again: not a complaint.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mean to be snarky, but a lot of jobs have to work over the 40 hours contracted per week, many at home after work hours. It’s part of the job for many jobs, but why is it most complained about by teachers. That’s what I don’t understand. Can someone please educate me?

Anonymous wrote:My child who is a junior has an AP English teacher who has graded ONE assignment for the month of January input in ParentVUE. This teacher is notorious for having so few assignments, Dec had 4 assignments total. I keep thinking she will do better, but that doesn’t seem to be true.

It’s hard for my child to get a good grade or good feedback when this is the case.

I am new to the school system in the US. Is this something to complain about? If so,who would I complain to? Also forgot to Mention this is a magnet program.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mean to be snarky, but a lot of jobs have to work over the 40 hours contracted per week, many at home after work hours. It’s part of the job for many jobs, but why is it most complained about by teachers. That’s what I don’t understand. Can someone please educate me?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?

We get it’s a hard job and no one is arguing that but students don’t learn or are able to improve without feedback and grades. Not ok.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are due by Wed..some take their time. Some didn't sync grades and no idea knowing. Not sure why they can't just grade once week. It is a lot of students everyone knows that fact. But...

But what? I’m not even a teacher but I invite you to spend a day or two in the building and you’ll see why grading takes so long. Most HS teachers have 5 classes. They are often helping students during lunch. They have easily 150 students.

Example: Say so a teacher teaches 3 sections of AP English each with 30 kids. So 90 kids total. You assign a 5page paper. If it takes 5mins to read each paper and provide feedback that would be 450mins, so almost 8hrs for one assignments. How many free hours did the teacher have this work week?