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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

I find this humorous, too.

Acknowledging there is a problem isn’t a “tantrum.” I have had classes over 30, so I’d love to know where this 1:20 is actually occurring.

You are justifying bad teaching and somehow equating working 20 hours to grade after school as being equal to a teacher who doesn’t grade at all. It’s an irrelevant rant to compare yourself to this teacher who doesn’t grade.

This post is filled with trolls. Or, as I suspect, just one replying to 90% of the posts.

I wish you Troll sniffers, and other internet sleuthes (eg., bringing up other posts and asking "is this you", etc.) would GTFOH and stop taking up space. A) it doesn't matter and B) you're not the admin. You're not adding anything and aren't half as clever as you think you are.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. Your kid’s teacher is lazy and that’s unfortunate. Grading truly sucks and grading writing is time consuming and to provide feedback even more so. That being said, it’s part of the job so unacceptable not to do it. Unfortunately, many of the district policies have created a sense of “why try” among kids and staff. Staff know the kids have to pass no matter what, so do the kids. The result is this sense of “I can give hours and hours to grading and doing work or just pass them all anyway.” And on the kids end it looks like “they’re going to have to pass me anyway so why do the work.” We have a LOT of bad policies that have completely demotivated all stakeholders because the districts just want to cook their data. It sucks.

That is absolute BS. I don’t teach HS anymore but when I did, I worked 60/70 hour weeks. I was NOT lazy. But sometimes I didn’t have an extra 10 hours in the week to grade a set of written responses. The teacher is not (necessarily) lazy. It’s an impossible workload. And frankly, VERY few students pay any attention to feedback in their writing. If I have to prioritize, I focus on planning engaging lessons and activities, but marking up writing that most students don’t care about.

It’s not BS. I do teach HS, and I teach writing. Having NO grades is unacceptable, as much as I hate grading too: you have to have grades. There are ways to reduce the time it takes to give feedback: chunk the writing, only give feedback for one specific element of the writing, do group revisions, etc, but you have to find a way to do it somehow and provide grades. I am not saying grade on the weekends (I don’t.) I’m saying no teacher should accept that having no grades in the gradebook is ok. If a teacher is teaching AP, they agreed to teach a higher level course that is writing heavy and dependent on preparing kids for a writing test. You need to be willing to do that if you CHOOSE to take on an AP course.

I try to manage my time by grading the kids’ writing and then offering the ones who want feedback to schedule a writing conference with me. This way I can truly focus on providing individual feedback to the kids who really want it and will use it instead of spending 10 hours giving it to everyone when all but maybe 5 will never even look at it or use it. So everyone gets a grade, the ones who truly want detailed feedback get it, and my time is spent in more effective ways.

Thank you for a reasonable explanation of how to handle a classroom and grade and being a reasonable teacher. No one wants teachers overloaded but at the same time don’t want to hear about them justifying not doing their job and being told to suck it up. Your ideas sound great and are what I’ve seen reasonable teachers implement. Keep up the great work and thank you for teaching students without taking out frustrations on children or parents. Will continue to advocate for reasonable work and class sizes for teachers that include grading.

Round of applause for this teacher (above)!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. Your kid’s teacher is lazy and that’s unfortunate. Grading truly sucks and grading writing is time consuming and to provide feedback even more so. That being said, it’s part of the job so unacceptable not to do it. Unfortunately, many of the district policies have created a sense of “why try” among kids and staff. Staff know the kids have to pass no matter what, so do the kids. The result is this sense of “I can give hours and hours to grading and doing work or just pass them all anyway.” And on the kids end it looks like “they’re going to have to pass me anyway so why do the work.” We have a LOT of bad policies that have completely demotivated all stakeholders because the districts just want to cook their data. It sucks.

That is absolute BS. I don’t teach HS anymore but when I did, I worked 60/70 hour weeks. I was NOT lazy. But sometimes I didn’t have an extra 10 hours in the week to grade a set of written responses. The teacher is not (necessarily) lazy. It’s an impossible workload. And frankly, VERY few students pay any attention to feedback in their writing. If I have to prioritize, I focus on planning engaging lessons and activities, but marking up writing that most students don’t care about.

It’s not BS. I do teach HS, and I teach writing. Having NO grades is unacceptable, as much as I hate grading too: you have to have grades. There are ways to reduce the time it takes to give feedback: chunk the writing, only give feedback for one specific element of the writing, do group revisions, etc, but you have to find a way to do it somehow and provide grades. I am not saying grade on the weekends (I don’t.) I’m saying no teacher should accept that having no grades in the gradebook is ok. If a teacher is teaching AP, they agreed to teach a higher level course that is writing heavy and dependent on preparing kids for a writing test. You need to be willing to do that if you CHOOSE to take on an AP course.

I try to manage my time by grading the kids’ writing and then offering the ones who want feedback to schedule a writing conference with me. This way I can truly focus on providing individual feedback to the kids who really want it and will use it instead of spending 10 hours giving it to everyone when all but maybe 5 will never even look at it or use it. So everyone gets a grade, the ones who truly want detailed feedback get it, and my time is spent in more effective ways.

Thank you for this response. Reasonable teachers do exist.

Keep up that attitude and, well, not for long.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. Your kid’s teacher is lazy and that’s unfortunate. Grading truly sucks and grading writing is time consuming and to provide feedback even more so. That being said, it’s part of the job so unacceptable not to do it. Unfortunately, many of the district policies have created a sense of “why try” among kids and staff. Staff know the kids have to pass no matter what, so do the kids. The result is this sense of “I can give hours and hours to grading and doing work or just pass them all anyway.” And on the kids end it looks like “they’re going to have to pass me anyway so why do the work.” We have a LOT of bad policies that have completely demotivated all stakeholders because the districts just want to cook their data. It sucks.

That is absolute BS. I don’t teach HS anymore but when I did, I worked 60/70 hour weeks. I was NOT lazy. But sometimes I didn’t have an extra 10 hours in the week to grade a set of written responses. The teacher is not (necessarily) lazy. It’s an impossible workload. And frankly, VERY few students pay any attention to feedback in their writing. If I have to prioritize, I focus on planning engaging lessons and activities, but marking up writing that most students don’t care about.

It’s not BS. I do teach HS, and I teach writing. Having NO grades is unacceptable, as much as I hate grading too: you have to have grades. There are ways to reduce the time it takes to give feedback: chunk the writing, only give feedback for one specific element of the writing, do group revisions, etc, but you have to find a way to do it somehow and provide grades. I am not saying grade on the weekends (I don’t.) I’m saying no teacher should accept that having no grades in the gradebook is ok. If a teacher is teaching AP, they agreed to teach a higher level course that is writing heavy and dependent on preparing kids for a writing test. You need to be willing to do that if you CHOOSE to take on an AP course.

I try to manage my time by grading the kids’ writing and then offering the ones who want feedback to schedule a writing conference with me. This way I can truly focus on providing individual feedback to the kids who really want it and will use it instead of spending 10 hours giving it to everyone when all but maybe 5 will never even look at it or use it. So everyone gets a grade, the ones who truly want detailed feedback get it, and my time is spent in more effective ways.

Thank you for this response. Reasonable teachers do exist.

It's the equivalent of hating what is going on with the federal government as a republican and going on a democratic chat room about the federal government to get relief from stressors and taking issue with everything said there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

I find this humorous, too.

Acknowledging there is a problem isn’t a “tantrum.” I have had classes over 30, so I’d love to know where this 1:20 is actually occurring.

You are justifying bad teaching and somehow equating working 20 hours to grade after school as being equal to a teacher who doesn’t grade at all. It’s an irrelevant rant to compare yourself to this teacher who doesn’t grade.

Provide text support. Find one line that justifies bad teaching. Just one.

Trying again. Not sure why the other text was included.


This person saying parents can't have a complaint about a high school teacher who doesn't grade because when she goes on DCUM she's looking for a break and not finding it. That is the gist of this teacher's problem. This is not a place to find a break. It's directly related to her profession and talking about the trials of it mainly from a parent's perspective. Why would a teacher come on here to get a break? In the middle of the school day no less? DCUM is basically a complaint or inquiry board so she's projecting onto the wrong crowd with her anxiety and not allowing the actual discussion about this teacher to happen. I don't go on teacher's boards to ridicule teachers. The OP has a valid complaint and this teacher is hijacking this thread because she has emotional angst about her job and is looking for comfort in the wrong place.


Which is why I included "rationalizing." How hard is it to say "Grading can be very time consuming, but that delay is inexcusable" and answer the OP's question?


Perhaps it’s because those of us working around the clock to provide for our students (often by neglecting our families) have grown tired of teacher bashing. Maybe the OP didn’t, but *every* post on DCUM about teachers devolves into complaints. Guess what? The teachers who aren’t grading don’t care. Seriously… I work with some and they really don’t care what you think. They will work their 40 hours, collect a paycheck, not grade, and live life. Those of us doing the job correctly are sacrificing a TON right now, and we DO care. So when you degrade teachers, it’s the good ones who get hurt. The bad ones will gleefully revel in your complaints.

They aren’t going to get fired. Nobody wants their job. So my job gets harder because I adopt the students who transfer out of their classes, and I end up working even more hours. And then I come to DCUM for a break, and parents snap at ME. I can’t fire the bad teachers. I have no control over that, and I'm working too hard to keep my own head above water to take on that fight. I’m increasingly growing tired of taking the blame (and work) from them. So what will I do? Quit.

What would stop me? I don’t know… maybe just a kind word? That’s hard to find these days, I guess.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

I find this humorous, too.

Acknowledging there is a problem isn’t a “tantrum.” I have had classes over 30, so I’d love to know where this 1:20 is actually occurring.

You are justifying bad teaching and somehow equating working 20 hours to grade after school as being equal to a teacher who doesn’t grade at all. It’s an irrelevant rant to compare yourself to this teacher who doesn’t grade.

Provide text support. Find one line that justifies bad teaching. Just one.

And teachers haven’t been defending it. Teachers have tried to explain the challenges of grading, but nobody has defended this.


Which is why I included "rationalizing." How hard is it to say "Grading can be very time consuming, but that delay is inexcusable" and answer the OP's question?
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This person saying parents can't have a complaint about a high school teacher who doesn't grade because when she goes on DCUM she's looking for a break and not finding it. That is the gist of this teacher's problem. This is not a place to find a break. It's directly related to her profession and talking about the trials of it mainly from a parent's perspective. Why would a teacher come on here to get a break? In the middle of the school day no less? DCUM is basically a complaint or inquiry board so she's projecting onto the wrong crowd with her anxiety and not allowing the actual discussion about this teacher to happen. I don't go on teacher's boards to ridicule teachers. The OP has a valid complaint and this teacher is hijacking this thread because she has emotional angst about her job and is looking for comfort in the wrong place.


Which is why I included "rationalizing." How hard is it to say "Grading can be very time consuming, but that delay is inexcusable" and answer the OP's question?


Perhaps it’s because those of us working around the clock to provide for our students (often by neglecting our families) have grown tired of teacher bashing. Maybe the OP didn’t, but *every* post on DCUM about teachers devolves into complaints. Guess what? The teachers who aren’t grading don’t care. Seriously… I work with some and they really don’t care what you think. They will work their 40 hours, collect a paycheck, not grade, and live life. Those of us doing the job correctly are sacrificing a TON right now, and we DO care. So when you degrade teachers, it’s the good ones who get hurt. The bad ones will gleefully revel in your complaints.

They aren’t going to get fired. Nobody wants their job. So my job gets harder because I adopt the students who transfer out of their classes, and I end up working even more hours. And then I come to DCUM for a break, and parents snap at ME. I can’t fire the bad teachers. I have no control over that, and I'm working too hard to keep my own head above water to take on that fight. I’m increasingly growing tired of taking the blame (and work) from them. So what will I do? Quit.

What would stop me? I don’t know… maybe just a kind word? That’s hard to find these days, I guess.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

I find this humorous, too.

Acknowledging there is a problem isn’t a “tantrum.” I have had classes over 30, so I’d love to know where this 1:20 is actually occurring.

You are justifying bad teaching and somehow equating working 20 hours to grade after school as being equal to a teacher who doesn’t grade at all. It’s an irrelevant rant to compare yourself to this teacher who doesn’t grade.

This post is filled with trolls. Or, as I suspect, just one replying to 90% of the posts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

I find this humorous, too.

Acknowledging there is a problem isn’t a “tantrum.” I have had classes over 30, so I’d love to know where this 1:20 is actually occurring.

You are justifying bad teaching and somehow equating working 20 hours to grade after school as being equal to a teacher who doesn’t grade at all. It’s an irrelevant rant to compare yourself to this teacher who doesn’t grade.

Provide text support. Find one line that justifies bad teaching. Just one.

Anonymous wrote:So this teacher is not following policy got it. Please keep the trauma grading stories to yourself. This teacher is doing none of it. Stop projecting your life onto hers as if you are one and the same and you will find more peace.

Well, it’s not a policy, just a guideline.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

I find this humorous, too.

Acknowledging there is a problem isn’t a “tantrum.” I have had classes over 30, so I’d love to know where this 1:20 is actually occurring.

You are justifying bad teaching and somehow equating working 20 hours to grade after school as being equal to a teacher who doesn’t grade at all. It’s an irrelevant rant to compare yourself to this teacher who doesn’t grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. Your kid’s teacher is lazy and that’s unfortunate. Grading truly sucks and grading writing is time consuming and to provide feedback even more so. That being said, it’s part of the job so unacceptable not to do it. Unfortunately, many of the district policies have created a sense of “why try” among kids and staff. Staff know the kids have to pass no matter what, so do the kids. The result is this sense of “I can give hours and hours to grading and doing work or just pass them all anyway.” And on the kids end it looks like “they’re going to have to pass me anyway so why do the work.” We have a LOT of bad policies that have completely demotivated all stakeholders because the districts just want to cook their data. It sucks.

That is absolute BS. I don’t teach HS anymore but when I did, I worked 60/70 hour weeks. I was NOT lazy. But sometimes I didn’t have an extra 10 hours in the week to grade a set of written responses. The teacher is not (necessarily) lazy. It’s an impossible workload. And frankly, VERY few students pay any attention to feedback in their writing. If I have to prioritize, I focus on planning engaging lessons and activities, but marking up writing that most students don’t care about.

It’s not BS. I do teach HS, and I teach writing. Having NO grades is unacceptable, as much as I hate grading too: you have to have grades. There are ways to reduce the time it takes to give feedback: chunk the writing, only give feedback for one specific element of the writing, do group revisions, etc, but you have to find a way to do it somehow and provide grades. I am not saying grade on the weekends (I don’t.) I’m saying no teacher should accept that having no grades in the gradebook is ok. If a teacher is teaching AP, they agreed to teach a higher level course that is writing heavy and dependent on preparing kids for a writing test. You need to be willing to do that if you CHOOSE to take on an AP course.

I try to manage my time by grading the kids’ writing and then offering the ones who want feedback to schedule a writing conference with me. This way I can truly focus on providing individual feedback to the kids who really want it and will use it instead of spending 10 hours giving it to everyone when all but maybe 5 will never even look at it or use it. So everyone gets a grade, the ones who truly want detailed feedback get it, and my time is spent in more effective ways.

Thank you for a reasonable explanation of how to handle a classroom and grade and being a reasonable teacher. No one wants teachers overloaded but at the same time don’t want to hear about them justifying not doing their job and being told to suck it up. Your ideas sound great and are what I’ve seen reasonable teachers implement. Keep up the great work and thank you for teaching students without taking out frustrations on children or parents. Will continue to advocate for reasonable work and class sizes for teachers that include grading.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

I find this humorous, too.

Acknowledging there is a problem isn’t a “tantrum.” I have had classes over 30, so I’d love to know where this 1:20 is actually occurring.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

Sorry, I have 32 students in my Dual Enrollment English class. There is no attempt to limit the classes to 20 kids per English class.

Good to know. I will avoid dual enrollment

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you hate it and I can’t imagine what you are like at work with kids and parents. Full of drama I guess. It’s weird that you harp on all this extra work you slave away at but then rationalize that somehow you will still be an excellent teacher if you drop grading and become teacher G or OPs child’s teacher. You may have the capacity but you won’t be an excellent teacher by doing that. It really isn’t an option at the high school level to not grade so you are just making unnecessary drama. You know OPs teacher is going against FCPS policy and not doing her job well but are throwing a tantrum about unrelated work to this discussion anyway to stir things up. You know you don’t have to do extra grading work because you have OPs teacher as an example of one that doesn’t grade and no repercussions. High schoolers need grades. Thank god for AP classes that have actual tests so teachers and school systems can’t just do whatever they want without getting national recognition through lowered scores.

If you are an English teacher, the state of Virginia actually limits those classes on average for the school to 1:20 because the grading is more intensive. If FCPS is not following that is on them.

Lol

Sorry, I have 32 students in my Dual Enrollment English class. There is no attempt to limit the classes to 20 kids per English class.