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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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ajrwdwgirl said:
As a teacher I work really hard to provide quick feedback on assignments to my students (middle school and high schoolers). I need to see how they are doing in case I need to reteach something just as they need to see how they are doing. It really irritates me when teachers take a long time to give feedback to their students. We have a teacher who hasn't graded the last two essays he gave his students, one is from 3 weeks ago! Some of the kids have complained to me but their isn't much I can do but sympathize with them. So I can see how annoying your Spanish situation is, especially with the deadline of withdrawing from the class.
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She had a family member die a while back (right before spring break) and so she got behind on her grading. That I understood.

What I don't understand is why she didn't catch up very much over spring break. Or why we got a test back over a month later. Or why it took until last week to get our first paper back (also over a month after we turned it in). And yet she piles on the assignments and expects us to keep up with it all, yet she obviously cannot keep up with her grading. Very frustrating. Another student who has had her twice now says this is pretty typical of her.

My school does not allow our professors to go this long without giving us grades. They have to give us a grade halfway through their class (so for an 8 week class, they give us a grade at 4 weeks, and for a 16 week class, grades are given at 8 weeks). But even so, I suspect professors are required to do their grading within a certain time frame because I've never had this happen before at my school. It also prevents professors from doing what she's doing; giving us so many assignments. If they cannot keep up, we cannot either. She's a nice lady, and she did let me make up an oral assignment when I had a migraine one day and called her in her office to ask to be allowed to make it up even though I had no doctor's note. But this grading situation is driving me bonkers. And is one of the reasons I didn't choose this other school; it has a reputation for not being as good a school
 
FutureCEO

FutureCEO

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ajrwdwgirl said:
As a teacher I work really hard to provide quick feedback on assignments to my students (middle school and high schoolers). I need to see how they are doing in case I need to reteach something just as they need to see how they are doing. It really irritates me when teachers take a long time to give feedback to their students. We have a teacher who hasn't graded the last two essays he gave his students, one is from 3 weeks ago! Some of the kids have complained to me but their isn't much I can do but sympathize with them. So I can see how annoying your Spanish situation is, especially with the deadline of withdrawing from the class.
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I find that some teachers start off great and then they hit tenure and don't care anymore. I had two teachers in their last year. One was terrible and one was brilliant. English was my least favorite. All you did was read "classics". If I want to read, I'll have better books at home.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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JenniferS said:
I've always poked them, probably because my Mama always did.

From the interwebz:

Do you need to poke a potato with a fork before baking?
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December 27, 2007
You have to spend only one afternoon cleaning bits of potato from your oven to know that exploding tubers aren't an old wives' tale. Because of their tough skin and moisture content, these root vegetables build pressure inside as they're baked. Small holes in the skin are necessary to release that steam - just a few on both sides of the potato will do the trick.


For best results, place potatoes directly on an oven rack so that air can circulate around them. Wrapping spuds in aluminum foil traps the steam, resulting in less-crisp skins. When baking sweet potatoes, put a cookie sheet on the rack below them to catch their juices - it's no fun cleaning up that, either.
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In all my life I have never poked holes in them for the oven. I guess tomorrow I'll make baked potatoes to see the difference. :hungry:
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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This bathroom doesn't scream rent this resort room. Thinking a photo of the shower curtain would be better marketing.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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FutureCEO said:
I find that some teachers start off great and then they hit tenure and don't care anymore. I had two teachers in their last year. One was terrible and one was brilliant. English was my least favorite. All you did was read "classics". If I want to read, I'll have better books at home.
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Hated some of the books we had to read. Why do they have to be so depressing to be considered great literature? There were exceptions. Huck Finn is hysterical. Some of the Shakespeares are so much funnier in modern English. But some...ugh.
 
seahawk7

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Ugh. School.

Spanish professor has been horrible about getting grades back to us. We've done lots and lots, and lots of assignments. She has given us two grades back, yet the assignments keep coming. Today was the last day to withdraw from a class. Oh, your grades should definitely be on Blackboard by then, she says.

Just checked. No grades.

I doubt I would have to drop the class because I think my abilities are good enough (and one of the grades she gave back was a 95, so I assume the other assignments are similarly graded). Just annoyed. And remembering why I turned down the free ride from this school two years ago and went to my school.
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I would be annoyed too, she needs to get them in on time.
 

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