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Anonymous wrote:My student is a straight A student and we still have AP teachers who don’t return essays in a timely manner. It’s not fair.

If that’s the worst thing happening in her and your life right now, you are blessed, indeed.

Touché. And if having a too much to grade is the worst thing in your life, consider yourself blessed.

I should feel blessed that I’m paid for 40 hours but work closer to 65?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My student is a straight A student and we still have AP teachers who don’t return essays in a timely manner. It’s not fair.

If that’s the worst thing happening in her and your life right now, you are blessed, indeed.

Touché. And if having a too much to grade is the worst thing in your life, consider yourself blessed.

I wish that were the worst thing in my life, but thanks for the sympathy?

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Anonymous wrote:My student is a straight A student and we still have AP teachers who don’t return essays in a timely manner. It’s not fair.

If that’s the worst thing happening in her and your life right now, you are blessed, indeed.

Touché. And if having a too much to grade is the worst thing in your life, consider yourself blessed.

Anonymous wrote:My student is a straight A student and we still have AP teachers who don’t return essays in a timely manner. It’s not fair.

If that’s the worst thing happening in her and your life right now, you are blessed, indeed.

Anonymous wrote:My student is a straight A student and we still have AP teachers who don’t return essays in a timely manner. It’s not fair.

When is life ever fair?

My student is a straight A student and we still have AP teachers who don’t return essays in a timely manner. It’s not fair.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid's English teacher took forever to grade papers. This is a self-selected profession. Don't become a highschool english teacher if you don't want to grade papers.

same , my daughter ended up with C, and had missing work she had no idea she was missing.

I don ‘t know your daughter, and I know many teachers have bad grading habits so I wouldn’t invalidate her claim, but many students will lie about the circumstances and throw their teacher under the bus so they won’t get in trouble.

Today, one of my students told admin I had reduced her final grade from an A to a C because of a summative grade I entered yesterday. Even if I had done that, did admin stop to consider there is no possible way she would know of such a change since the gradebook isn’t open to students? Or that her grade has been a C since the beginning of January,? Of course not. I had to use my planning period to meet with admin to explain myself.

What irks me is that I deliberately haven’t graded any summative work since the last week of January so students (particularly seniors) wouldn’t receive an “unpleasant surprise” they couldn’t remedy before the end of the quarter.

The truth is that I was very generous with this student. She turned in a couple of poorly written and incomplete (1/4 complete) assignments that were due in December. i gave her partial credit for the work and her grade went up to a B.

I try very hard to be fair to the students with their grades and with late work, but enough kids will lie about their situation to the adults in their lives, that I always end up looking like the bad guy.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid's English teacher took forever to grade papers. This is a self-selected profession. Don't become a highschool english teacher if you don't want to grade papers.

same , my daughter ended up with C, and had missing work she had no idea she was missing.

The kids are such liars.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid's English teacher took forever to grade papers. This is a self-selected profession. Don't become a highschool english teacher if you don't want to grade papers.

same , my daughter ended up with C, and had missing work she had no idea she was missing.

Presumably, unless she had many absences, she was there when work was assigned? And knew that she had not turned it in?

Anonymous wrote:My kid's English teacher took forever to grade papers. This is a self-selected profession. Don't become a highschool english teacher if you don't want to grade papers.

same , my daughter ended up with C, and had missing work she had no idea she was missing.

Anonymous wrote:My kid's English teacher took forever to grade papers. This is a self-selected profession. Don't become a highschool english teacher if you don't want to grade papers.

English has become one of the harder departments to staff now with the most turnover. So it seems people are choosing to go elsewhere.

Good thing we have AI, right? Who needs to learn to write anyway?

My kid's English teacher took forever to grade papers. This is a self-selected profession. Don't become a highschool english teacher if you don't want to grade papers.

It's funny that the one person defending teachers is a Fed. Because absolutely, I also think they complain endlessly too.

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Anonymous wrote:I see this issue similar to a PCP Medical professionals. They have x number of patients each day at a fixed salary. But on top of your obligatory face to face time, there are insane amount of documentations, answering messages, answering calls, and meetings. Notes and documentations take a lot of time and need to be done in a timely manner or you don’t get paid — there are consequences. If not finish at work, you bring it home. At the end of the day, you do your job because you love it, no one likes paperwork. Burn out happens and that’s when one decide to quit or change career/retire.

+1 on this. Complaining and not grading and trying to explaining it away ad nauseum is tiring. As a person, I would rather fulfill the duties of my job (grading on time) than trying to scapegoat endlessly.

You do you. That’s a toxic Type A attitude that can lead to success but also burnout. Physicians get paid a hell of a lot more to put up with extra demands.

I’m a DP. And perhaps if people are explaining something ad nauseam, a different tactic would be listening instead of shutting them down. Maybe they understand the problem, which can’t be solved by ignoring it.

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Anonymous wrote:I see this issue similar to a PCP Medical professionals. They have x number of patients each day at a fixed salary. But on top of your obligatory face to face time, there are insane amount of documentations, answering messages, answering calls, and meetings. Notes and documentations take a lot of time and need to be done in a timely manner or you don’t get paid — there are consequences. If not finish at work, you bring it home. At the end of the day, you do your job because you love it, no one likes paperwork. Burn out happens and that’s when one decide to quit or change career/retire.

+1 on this. Complaining and not grading and trying to explaining it away ad nauseum is tiring. As a person, I would rather fulfill the duties of my job (grading on time) than trying to scapegoat endlessly.

You do you. That’s a toxic Type A attitude that can lead to success but also burnout. Physicians get paid a hell of a lot more to put up with extra demands.