Anonymous
03/03/2025 10:36
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Is a spankin paddle still legal in public schools?
Anonymous
03/03/2025 09:26
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You should have dropped the grading needs to your admin. If you have tenure you should work your contract hours, document it, wait for the retaliation, document it, go to the media, the sue ( it works well if you are a protected class of worker)
No such things exists in MCPS.
As for the rest, MCPS is very good at concealing how it punishes workers who do to comply. A coworker tried what you suggested. She was “rotated out” of her position “to expand her repertoire” and given the two hardest preps (and populations) in our department. By the end of the year, she gave up and transferred.
Like anything this is going to work much better when it’s more than just one person doing it. If your union isn’t listening, it’s up to the members to make them. Vote out the current union leaders. Come together and announce a plan for doing the working hours and only 8 hours more. When this becomes what is happening at multiple schools and multiple teachers complaining about the same thing, then CO and the County will make fixing it a priority. Whether that means more staff, more autonomy to set deadlines, or something else.
Anonymous
03/03/2025 09:22
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know teachers are overworked and have hard their planning and grading periods taken away. Why can't MCPS or other districts seem to fix this because it's really hurting learning. If they could just fix this it would really do a lot to help students and teachers.
I don't understand why the district thinks it is okay that some teachers can't find enough time to grade almost anything until right before the quarter ends. Students have no idea what they are doing wrong and therefore they can't ask for help. I'm sure the teachers are stressed out to see so much work piling up. Why can't we do better?
At my school, the main reason why teachers get grading pile ups is losing one planning period to class coverage. You, as a parent, can help by signing up to substitute. Do it once a week.
A second reason is that the 10% late penalty means 50-60% of my students habitually turn in assignments late. Often many weeks late. Make the highest grade possible for late work 80% and that foolishness will cease for most students.
It’s 10% late until the deadline. Stop making the deadline end of quarter or weeks away, because in college or in life it certainly isn’t that. This should be especially true for Honors and AP classes.
Anonymous
03/03/2025 03:53
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The teachers are not paid enough. Why can’t the central office take a pay cut and raise teacher salaries? Its ridiculous how little they are paid for the amount of work they do and the energy they need to put up with students and parents. I am not a teacher, but have 4 kids go through mcps and I feel for the teachers. Even the bad ones.
Newer teachers are not paid well. Senior teachers are paid decently.
Not for the workload. Senior teacher here. I woke up at 5am today (a Saturday) to grade. I’ll be at it all day.
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The workloads for teachers and high school counselors are unsustainable and unfortunately I don’t see anything happening to change that. What we do is never enough.
Absolutely. I’m the PP. Graded half of Sunday, too. I’m still not done, and I’m starting the work week behind.
It isn’t sustainable and I spent last night dreaming of getting out. I’d like to experience a job where I can leave work at work.
Anonymous
03/03/2025 02:30
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
If we had a union that supported teachers we could work on solutions. As we have a bunch of admin lackies ut causes more harm than good on the teachers mentally. We do not know who to trust with the bullying and blatant and rampant grade inflation and incident washing .
Anonymous
03/02/2025 08:03
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Anonymous wrote:You should have dropped the grading needs to your admin. If you have tenure you should work your contract hours, document it, wait for the retaliation, document it, go to the media, the sue ( it works well if you are a protected class of worker)
No such things exists in MCPS.
As for the rest, MCPS is very good at concealing how it punishes workers who do to comply. A coworker tried what you suggested. She was “rotated out” of her position “to expand her repertoire” and given the two hardest preps (and populations) in our department. By the end of the year, she gave up and transferred.
Anonymous
03/02/2025 07:59
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Anonymous wrote:I know teachers are overworked and have hard their planning and grading periods taken away. Why can't MCPS or other districts seem to fix this because it's really hurting learning. If they could just fix this it would really do a lot to help students and teachers.
I don't understand why the district thinks it is okay that some teachers can't find enough time to grade almost anything until right before the quarter ends. Students have no idea what they are doing wrong and therefore they can't ask for help. I'm sure the teachers are stressed out to see so much work piling up. Why can't we do better?
At my school, the main reason why teachers get grading pile ups is losing one planning period to class coverage. You, as a parent, can help by signing up to substitute. Do it once a week.
A second reason is that the 10% late penalty means 50-60% of my students habitually turn in assignments late. Often many weeks late. Make the highest grade possible for late work 80% and that foolishness will cease for most students.
Anonymous
03/01/2025 07:34
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The teachers are not paid enough. Why can’t the central office take a pay cut and raise teacher salaries? Its ridiculous how little they are paid for the amount of work they do and the energy they need to put up with students and parents. I am not a teacher, but have 4 kids go through mcps and I feel for the teachers. Even the bad ones.
Newer teachers are not paid well. Senior teachers are paid decently.
Not for the workload. Senior teacher here. I woke up at 5am today (a Saturday) to grade. I’ll be at it all day.
x1000000
The workloads for teachers and high school counselors are unsustainable and unfortunately I don’t see anything happening to change that. What we do is never enough.
Anonymous
03/01/2025 07:17
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
You should have dropped the grading needs to your admin. If you have tenure you should work your contract hours, document it, wait for the retaliation, document it, go to the media, the sue ( it works well if you are a protected class of worker)
Anonymous
03/01/2025 07:15
Subject: Grading deadlines and teachers
Senior teachers also want to be admin and my experience is they need to show how they can ignore corruption and crime too.