Failing Notices are due tomorrow. We send them out 3 times per term. It's only 2 weeks into 2nd term, but the first round is due tomorrow. I have 210 students. I have to send out 77 failing notices. That's 31% of my students. I think that means tha I am failing. I don't know. I only have three assignments put in so far for most of the classes and if they've missed 1, there goes the grade.
I'm tired. It's late. I did my USU homework a day late this week. Oh well. I'm not sure what the ramifications of that are. I think none, but we'll see.
I just finished checking off some late/absent assignments and put the grades into the computer. A student complained today that her assignment took 5 pieces of paper to do and I'll I'm going to do is look it over and put a check mark on it. She didn't think that was enough recognition for all of her work. I started thinking . . . If I graded every problem on every students' paper . . . let's say an average assignment is 25 problems and it takes me 1.5 seconds to look at a problem and mark it right or wrong . . . 210 students x 25 x 1.5 = 7875 seconds per day. Add on to that 5 more seconds per student to write them a meaninful note and record their score . . . 210 students x 5 seconds = 1050 seconds per day. 7875 + 1050 = 8925 seconds per day. That equals 148.75 minutes, which equals 2.48 hours.
Two and a half hours every day just simply grading papers? That doesn't include recording their scores, let alone planning, going to meetings, helping kids before and after school, helping kids all class period long. It's midnight thirty. I don't know how to keep up with all of this.
Good night.
On a lighter note - it's FRIDAY!!!
