The only ones that will be left are gym teachers

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:he needs to put the request in writing to her via email.

if she doens't get back within a week or so, forward that to the assistant principal in charge of instruction

he/ she will kick the teacher's ass (metaphorically of course)

DP. Why would you want that? I’m curious. We have fewer and fewer people each year who are willing to take on teaching’s crushing workload and bad work environment. Why would you find glee in kicking someone when they are down?

I don’t get this site. People rejoice in criticizing teachers. I wish spending a week as a teacher was a condition for enrolling a student in school. Teachers would be revered.

Only a teacher who completes all the responsibilities of their job, is worth keeping.

Anonymous wrote:OP here- so his grade was 3 points higher this morning then it was last night and dropped when I checked again just now with the teacher noting on the grade that he did better on the original test vs. the retake she scored. Why is was randomly higher this morning is beyond me but so frustrating.

And I suspect the teacher is frustrated, too.

Imagine being responsible for an absurd amount of paperwork and then being given absolutely no time to complete it.

And then imagine angry emails because you can’t get through your Mount Everest of work fast enough. And you are aware people are relying on you and that makes you feel additionally anxious.

And then the guilt, having to decide between a rare weekend away with your family or staying home to get an uninterrupted weekend of grading done. And when you pick your family because of your spouse’s pressure, feeling guilty the entire time that you are letting your students down.

OP here- so his grade was 3 points higher this morning then it was last night and dropped when I checked again just now with the teacher noting on the grade that he did better on the original test vs. the retake she scored. Why is was randomly higher this morning is beyond me but so frustrating.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why email at all? Why doesn’t the kid talk to the teacher in person?

Because you need a paper trail that you asked with some teachers.

+1 My kid wasn't able to submit a HW because something on his MCPS laptop short circuited and it the school was fixing it. He gave the teacher the HW on paper and teacher verbally promised to adjust the missing assignment to have a grade. She forgot and he has a zero, and she told him she had no recollection of him giving him the paper copy.

That's too bad. I feel so sorry for the kid.

I understand maybe teachers are too busy, but students are most innocent and vulnerable in most cases.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why email at all? Why doesn’t the kid talk to the teacher in person?

Because you need a paper trail that you asked with some teachers.

+1 My kid wasn't able to submit a HW because something on his MCPS laptop short circuited and it the school was fixing it. He gave the teacher the HW on paper and teacher verbally promised to adjust the missing assignment to have a grade. She forgot and he has a zero, and she told him she had no recollection of him giving him the paper copy.

Are the grades now final, or could they still change?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:he needs to put the request in writing to her via email.

if she doens't get back within a week or so, forward that to the assistant principal in charge of instruction

he/ she will kick the teacher's ass (metaphorically of course)

DP. Why would you want that? I’m curious. We have fewer and fewer people each year who are willing to take on teaching’s crushing workload and bad work environment. Why would you find glee in kicking someone when they are down?

I don’t get this site. People rejoice in criticizing teachers. I wish spending a week as a teacher was a condition for enrolling a student in school. Teachers would be revered.

Most of us don't rejoice. But we and our kids are stressed out, so we have issues when the part of the job that affects the kid the most in terms of their future prospects doesn't get done or gets messed up.

None of that requires "kicking the teacher's ass (metaphorically)". The teachers are trapped in the same terrible system.

Kick the administrators' asses.

Similar situation here, where a regrade never happened. To be honest, my kid kept forgetting to tell the teacher. I told him to let her know today, though it's probably too late. I may email her, because she made a huge deal about this one assignment, how she expects everyone to fail and then to do a retake, he worked a bunch on the retake (it was a written assignment, not a test), then she never graded it. So I think he at least deserves that feedback. I don't want to be that parent though. He did scrape by with an A, so while it doesn't affect his quarterly grade, it can potentially impact his semester grade (again, I don’t want to nag, but ugh...)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:he needs to put the request in writing to her via email.

if she doens't get back within a week or so, forward that to the assistant principal in charge of instruction

he/ she will kick the teacher's ass (metaphorically of course)

DP. Why would you want that? I’m curious. We have fewer and fewer people each year who are willing to take on teaching’s crushing workload and bad work environment. Why would you find glee in kicking someone when they are down?

I don’t get this site. People rejoice in criticizing teachers. I wish spending a week as a teacher was a condition for enrolling a student in school. Teachers would be revered.

Most of us don't rejoice. But we and our kids are stressed out, so we have issues when the part of the job that affects the kid the most in terms of their future prospects doesn't get done or gets messed up.

Anonymous wrote:he needs to put the request in writing to her via email.

if she doens't get back within a week or so, forward that to the assistant principal in charge of instruction

he/ she will kick the teacher's ass (metaphorically of course)

DP. Why would you want that? I’m curious. We have fewer and fewer people each year who are willing to take on teaching’s crushing workload and bad work environment. Why would you find glee in kicking someone when they are down?

I don’t get this site. People rejoice in criticizing teachers. I wish spending a week as a teacher was a condition for enrolling a student in school. Teachers would be revered.

he needs to put the request in writing to her via email.

if she doens't get back within a week or so, forward that to the assistant principal in charge of instruction

he/ she will kick the teacher's ass (metaphorically of course)

Anonymous wrote:Why email at all? Why doesn’t the kid talk to the teacher in person?

Because you need a paper trail that you asked with some teachers.