Spring Break homework rant...

[lanceodom]

Unless you are paying your employee to do so I would tell you to kiss my rear. I give a 100% when I am work, but when I am home, that is just where I am at. Home is to recharge and spend time with my family, not worrying about what is going on at work. If someone can't get to me during normal business hours then it wasn't that important and can wait until tomorrow. I have a personal phone and a work phone and the work phone gets turned off as soon as I get home. If it is a true emergency a few people have my personal cell number and contact me that way, but it dang well better be an emergency. I have never understood employers that expect employees to be at the companies every becking call. I work 12-14 hours days. That's more than enough time for my employer.

If you told me to kiss your rear, you would be an EX-employee. I agree 100% that off time is off time and after hours is after hours and should be spent with family or whatever you want to do. However, we are very understanding owners. Have you ever run errands, go to the dentist or doctor's appointment, answer personal calls, personal emails, run to school to take their kid lunch or go to a school play or whatever during work time. We let our employees do that often. SO for the occasion I need folks to answer a call, whether it be from me or a client, they need to do so. It has worked well in my 25 years and for those it hasn't worked well for, well they no longer are here. Which is fine. I am not a clock watcher and don't expect my employees to be either. I also lay that expectation out in the interview process. One last thought, all of our employees are salaried and not paid by the hour so that may be different than what you are used to.

[txhunter007]

Talk to the teacher. When that doesnt get anywhere, file a complaint with the school. Teacher had no business sending homework out after school is already out.

[wow]

When and where is the protest and riot I got a bat and matches.

[Dale Moser]

The irony is priceless. LOL!

I almost passed out!

[JayB]

One last thought, all of our employees are salaried and not paid by the hour so that may be different than what you are used to.

This does change the game....I have a different expectation of a salaried employee, however, my salaried employees are managers. Be that as it may....nobody has after hours email or phone except myself.

[RogueSamurai]

Tell them you don't want your child to be involved with something that's related to gambling. It could lead to drinking and drugs. They wouldn't want that in their school.

Literally laughed at this one. Nice.

Agree that the homework assignment sent on a Sunday over spring break is wrong. Thats a go no.

We were in the woods during at least half of spring break, so that wouldn't have worked for us anyway.

Start with the teacher, give her one (1) chance to fix it, then go up.

[BillDecker]

Before you shoot the teacher
And complain on the GS
Talk to the teacher
And if you don't like the type of work your child is doing at school, don't blame the teacher, or the district. The material taught in class is mandated by the state. Teachers have very little input or leeway on what is taught and how it is taught.

[rut-ro]

A Zero? My wife is a teacher at FBISD and she is not allowed to give anything less than a 50. Yep If a kid turns in a blank paper she has to give them a 50. Your child should if at least got some credits

[fox1]

I would be aggravated as well.
No one can figure out why kids these day are so stressed out, pretty obvious.

[bakin7005]

Let's get down to the brass tacks!!!! What and when are we boycotting

^^^^

[bowhuntertex]

If you told me to kiss your rear, you would be an EX-employee. I agree 100% that off time is off time and after hours is after hours and should be spent with family or whatever you want to do. However, we are very understanding owners. Have you ever run errands, go to the dentist or doctor's appointment, answer personal calls, personal emails, run to school to take their kid lunch or go to a school play or whatever during work time. We let our employees do that often. SO for the occasion I need folks to answer a call, whether it be from me or a client, they need to do so. It has worked well in my 25 years and for those it hasn't worked well for, well they no longer are here. Which is fine. I am not a clock watcher and don't expect my employees to be either. I also lay that expectation out in the interview process. One last thought, all of our employees are salaried and not paid by the hour so that may be different than what you are used to.

I get the errands during work hours and if that is how they are compensated then that is fair. And I wouldn't blame you one bit for firing me if I told you to kiss my rear. Bit with how you compensate for that I probably wouldn't ha e a problem with it. I have been both hourly and salary. my experience has been that 99% of the time anything emailed or called after hours can wait until the next business day. The few companies I have worked for required me to use PTO or sick time if I had to take off during the day so I guess that is where I am coming from.

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[UltraMax]

Before you shoot the teacher
And complain on the GS
Talk to the teacher
And if you don't like the type of work your child is doing at school, don't blame the teacher, or the district. The material taught in class is mandated by the state. Teachers have very little input or leeway on what is taught and how it is taught.

An NCAA bracket assignment assigned on spring break is mandated by the state?

This whole thing is BS. I'd be up at the school giving my two cents. A break, is that, a break "SPRING BREAK". As in "a break FROM school". My kid wouldn't be doing the assignment. Period. On spring break, family is more important.

[Tubby]

Spring Break homework rant...

Before you shoot the teacher

And complain on the GS

Talk to the teacher

And if you don't like the type of work your child is doing at school, don't blame the teacher, or the district. The material taught in class is mandated by the state. Teachers have very little input or leeway on what is taught and how it is taught.

Shoot the teacher? Really?!?!

Did you even get the point of what I posted? This isn't a rant about what he's doing at school or material taught in class... it's the fact of WHEN the assignment was assigned.

So if a teacher gets a wild hair up their *** to send an email for homework at 3am on a Wednesday night and it's due Thursday morning, would you shoot the teacher? Start a thread on TBH voicing your concern (or rant) or would you blame the child? According to your post, the teacher, school, district nor the state are to blame....

I'm waiting for him to get home and see what the teacher said about the assignment. If it's still a zero, we'll be talking to her. And no I won't shoot her...


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[Dudley]

I am a principal, and I have some problems with this situation, as I think any principal would.
1) Grades must reflect the work. Late work is accepted but at a reduced grade - never a 0.
2) Assignments are to be made during class time only. Email is for clarification or reminders.
3) Incomplete work gets a reduced grade, not a 0.

If this issue was brought to me by a parent, my first action would be to clarify when the assignment was given. You said the kids got out of school a little early on Friday. Did the school release early, or did you take them out on your own? Is it possible the assignment was given Friday and your child missed it? Is it possible this assignment was given even earlier and your child overlooked it or just forgot, or decided he didn't want to do school work during Spring Break? I cant tell you what the end result would be, but I know I would have lots of questions for everyone before I drew any conclusions whether the teacher acted fairly and in accordance with policy. If the teacher was in the wrong, the child would not be "punished" for the teacher's mistake, and then I would have a closed-door conference with the teacher regarding my expectations. Good luck to you and your child.

[ON THE EDGE]

Homework is straight up ridiculous. My kids (9&10) spend 1-3 hours a day doing homework. Then projects and other junk on top of that. Honestly, the school system is broke. Sending home all that work is a joke. Then we end up having to help them also just so we can get it done and spend some family time together. I don't really even worry about their grades. Just pass is my concern. Granted, I get on to them a little bit so they don't know, but I think the majority of school is a joke. When they find something they love, they put their energy into it. They're both very smart about so many different things, that I can see they will do great in whatever they want to. I just get sick of the broke system and the amount of work they always send home. I always ask the teachers if they enjoy their kids coming home with all that work after their long day. Never really get a good answer