<p>LOL, quit complaining, this was my american history teachers' schedule last year (boy do i miss that class):</p>
<p>he waddles in 10-20 min. late (he had hip surgery and didn't have a steady classroom)
we get out our homework from last night and he pretends to check it
we do a "quote of the day" where we get 10 minutes to write one sentence about the quote
he checks the quote for completion
with about an hour left of class, he assigns us the next nights' homework out of the book and everyone procedes to talk/listen to music/text
last 2 minutes of class, everyone B.S.'s their homework
repeat steps next day</p>
<p>before you ask, no it was not an AP. oh, and he was the football coach, lol :D</p>
<p>also we watched history movies* at least 2 days out of the week</p>
<p>*history movies being: saving private ryan, band of brothers, etc.</p>
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<p>I agree it is frustrating to have lazy teachers. I've seen my own daughter with some and it annoys me. Especially because I know what it means to teach. I believe teachers have an obligation to provide useful feedback and in a timely matter or they are not doing their job. How else can you learn? </p>
<p>However, as a college professor, I can tell you it takes me 20 mins to grade ONE assignment. It is very time consuming (and I should add, very boring) task and you may be greatly underestimating the work involved. </p>
<p>Also, the reason I give assignments is not so you can collect a grade, or because I enjoy grading, but so that you learn from the experience. So just not assigning work would be rather pointless (even without feedback or grades there is significant value in you doing assignments).</p>
<p>I had a teacher who read my 10 page paper in front of me in less than 10 seconds and gave me a 100.</p>
<p>All she did was look at my first sentence on the 1st page and then look at the last page and look at the last sentence.</p>
<p>So what I did for the rest of the class was put in relevant first and last sentences and the rest in between I put cuss words. :) I still got 100's.</p>
<p>^lol that happened to me too soph. year. The lit teacher made us write a huge lit essay and made us document like 10 hours of research and photocopy every single page we cited. In the end, I rememeber her grading 5 15 page essays in 15 minutes. Whatever, I was happy that I got a 100.</p>
<p>Ya, no lazy ones this year, but last year was bad, I was ticked off. Math tests, 3.5 weeks later: "There are alot of tests, so I haven't finished". This year my teacher gets us back to us the next day. There is NO excuse to be a lazy teacher. It is their job to teach and grade us. They are getting paid! Thats why I despise them</p>
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<p>I agree on this. In physics, I forgot to do one worksheet and I was given a zero. And to add that this was and still is the only time I didn't do my homework in 3.5 years in high school. Also to add that this teacher graded only tests and about maybe 5 worksheets (out of 40+ we did) the whole year.</p>
<p>For AP Bio the teacher was SO lazy. We did this lab report the first week of the semester and we didn't get it back until the 2nd to last day of the semester.</p>
<p>Wow I completely agree here. I would say that most of my teachers are like this. In one of my classes, we got stuff back the other day- from October. Some teachers admit their laziness by having us grade things in class. I just can't stand the hypocrisy. "Oh I am just so stressed out by all these assignments I have to grade". "I didn't get to grade your tests because my husband took me out to dinner!" Yeah those are cute excuses- ones that would never work if WE used them. </p>
<p>That would never fly in any other profession. Imagine working at a firm and telling your boss, "Sorry I didn't do that report you told me to do- I just fell asleep as soon as I got home last night!" </p>
<p>To me, that kind of attitude fosters an atmosphere of distrust and disrespect towards the teacher. When they put off grading assignments, it says "I do not care about the hard work you did. This paper that I assigned you is not important to me. I don't appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into this paper to please me or to improve yourself." </p>
<p>Sure, grading papers probably isn't a day at Disney, but it's an unavoidable part of the job description. My English teachers have been traditionally... contrite... in their notes on graded papers. For example, 1-2 page long papers I have written generally warrant some vague comment - "no" or the changing of a single word into a synonym or a "weak opening" (my current teacher's favorite), along with a score. I, too, have seen my teacher grade a paper in literally 15-20 seconds ("oh it looks like a 37/40"). Are you kidding me? AP classes are supposed to be college-level! How am I supposed to get anything constructive from a "no" written next to one of my paragraphs or words? </p>
<p>And then there's the babysitting classes. We have to take a mandatory art credit to graduate in my state- in particular, a media/web/film-based art class. Sure, I don't complain about having a fun class amidst my APs, but let's be honest- that class is BS. We do little projects and have deadlines, etc. but that class is BS. The teacher doesn't grade any of our stuff, we do "peer grading". She still finds it necessary to take a walk around the room every 25 minutes and gripe at people for doing work for other classes or for talking and "not working" (because we know that the work is oh-so-difficult), but never actually teaches us anything - one of those "look it up yourself" teachers. That brings up a whole new dimension of lazy teachers! "go look at your notes". hahhaa.</p>