For those of you not in Baltimore, please know that it is absolutely beautiful here right now, and has been since Wednesday. It's even a little hot (temperatures today reached 88 degrees, but it's without all the humidity of the summer). Before last Wednesday, it rained for a couple days in a row. Yesterday, when we scrimmaged on our baseball field, I noticed a big puddle still in the middle of it. I was pretty surprised by it, and put an email in to my Athletic Director about it that evening.
No one can come fix it, so our game was canceled. Ughhhhh. We've had three games scheduled so far, and two have been postponed. But it's freaking beautiful outside today; it was a complete shocker that they couldn't get the field ready. If the city cannot get a field ready in a whole week without rain, how can we play at all? I mean, it's spring - it's going to rain at least once a week. Soooo frustrating, and it makes me so extra frustrated to see the kids come into my classroom to ask about the game and to have to tell them it was canceled because of beurocracy and inaction.
Also, today, this morning, on the last day of the quarter, we received an email saying the quarter had actually been extended another week. Yup, told the last day of the quarter. The last day. As if teachers don't plan for these things. Ugh. It was a frustrating day to teach in Baltimore City today.
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I don't understand about extending the quarter. Does that mean you're supposed to turn in your grades a week later? I suppose there might be kids who could use the chance to get their grades up, but how are you supposed to add in extra evaluations at this point?
What would happen if you just turned in the grades you were planning on turning in (no additional tests) just a little later than you had in your schedule?
In my work when management makes stupid and painful decisions that they really can't force people to follow (happens too often I'm afraid) I don't argue I just ignore/"forget" to follow their direction.
That's actually the tactic I'm taking on this one. Now I have to hear a lot of complaints about taking more work when I keep a pretty tight calendar for what I'm doing by quarter and by unit. I'm just going to do what you say, but it's still annoying. It also makes the seniors have a 2-week 4th quarter. I'm much more upset about the field, though.
I'm confused. I didn't get any e-mail yesterday about extending the quarter (I just went back and checked again).
In fact, in my class we already began lessons and activities for the new units in the 4th quarter yesterday, since grades closed for 3rd quarter before spring break and teachers were told to enter them by today. They can't make a change like that last minute; it's fourth quarter now.
Maybe it's a high schools thing?
The email was sent to us by our Dean of Students, who told others that it was forwarded to him that morning and he sent it right out to us. It also included a bunch of changes to the 4th quarter exam dates and such.
We got it eventually, photocopied (not in an e-mail). It came to us a day later than you, at 2:30pm April 7th, after I already entered my third quarter grades in the online grades system (which we were originally instructed had to be completed by 4/7).
I noticed they pushed back senior exams but did not change regular final exam dates, so 4th quarter is going to be short!
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