At the end of every motherfucking month, we have to write anywhere from 1-4 short paragraphs about each elementary student we get assigned to on how they're doing in certain areas. Reading, Listening, Grammar, Behavior, etc. It varies because each teacher rotates for elementary in the afternoon, which means on average, we're only spending about an hour and twenty minutes with each class a week. Given that part of the short 40 minute class is taken up by spelling tests, this actually comes out to a lot less.
After we turn in our comments, we give them to our "head teacher" (glorified regular teacher -- basically does more work with not much pay) who complies them into a full report with listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, behavior, test results altogether.
These motherfucking reports are bullshit, mainly because we have to come up with unique shit to say every month while spending a MINIMUM amount of time with these children, who range from ages 8-12 -- which basically means you can't see any real improvement in one month during which they only spend a total of 6 hours with one particular teacher. I'm giving up on the reports because they're due tomorrow because fuck it i'm tired. But as of right now I have this attached to the top of the report (which will go to the head Korean teacher and head English teacher -- it's pretty informal between all of us)
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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
These literally make me borderline want to kill myself, guys. It's not the work. I don't mind the work. It's that every teacher *literally* has to pull 1000+ words out of thin air once a month with students they only see maybe 6 hours a month. 6 out of over 700 hours in the month, and we are expected to remember specifics about our meager time with each student about how their grammar is, even though because of spelling tests, we only actually spend about half the class time talking to the students. We can't even take notes during the month about the students because we don't have our comment assignments until a week before we have to do the reports, unless we take notes on every single student we have -- and then of course, who has time for that in a 40-minute class that is already packed to the brim?
Now, if we had these students for more than once class, more than once or twice a week, this might not be as big of an issue. But as it stands, we're feeding these parents completely nothing and it is about as painstaking as it gets. I'd rather do double actual real work rather than spend time making up bureaucratic nonsense once a month. I reiterate::: I'm not complaining about work. I'm complaining that this work is absolutely unnecessary filler designed for parents egoes which makes it 1000x more difficult to do and therefore highly suicide-inducing.
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I don't know if i'll delete this or not before I turn it in, tomorrow is Christmas eve afterall and I don't really think it would do much good. I think i'm going to check my contract, though, and if this isn't stipulated in it I might challenge doing them monthly altogether just to make a point. I'd rather write half-full page on each student every 3 months (and have something to say) than do several paragraphs of completely made-up bullshit every month.