<p>As a high school teachers I deal with recommendations all the time. We were told to shoot for the dead line, but are aware that usually a day or two late a recommendation from teacher may not be a deal breaker as long as the students submit theirs on time. So your D should be fine. I would ask her to contact her GC first thing in the morning and teacher ASAP
I don’t necessarily check my work email from home. I am at school from 7 to 5 and that is enough time for students to meet with me for extra help or whatever. According to my school policy, I should not be talking to any of my students from home mor am I allowed to share my phone numbers with them. In fact it is not necessary.
We are hearing enough stories how these are misused by people.</p>
<p>I am a teacher. I regularly check my school email from home. While I might not reply in the evening or over
the weekend, it is very helpful for me to be on top of any email requests so I CAN respond quickly once I’m at work.</p>
<p>Send an email to the teacher’s school email address. Many teachers check their school email from home. </p>
<p>Agree with others…get everything else submitted on time from your end.</p>
<p>"As a person who does check e-mail over the weekend, I have received a request for information (transcripts, recommendation letters, secondary report) that was time stamped at 11:45 pm last night. </p>
<p>What would you say that I do with this information, since the things I need to send in to the school are at my work computer and I cannot access my network from my home PC.</p>
<p>Are you saying that I should be acting on this immediately? NOT. I will act on it when I am at school tomorrow."</p>
<p>I would expect that you’d send a message to that effect -that you are aware and that it will be sent first thing Monday when you have access. </p>
<p>“I do not talk to students or their parents from my home (I am in at 7 am and I usually do not leave until 5. I catch parents before they leave for work, contact them at work and leave messages at home).”</p>
<p>I routinely talk with my clients in Asia on Sunday night and this week I have 2 phone calls with clients in India that are 2-4 am my time. That’s what good service is about.</p>
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I don’t know where you live, but in our suburb, teachers get paid just fine. Of course, in general they could get paid a million dollars per minute and some people would still say they were underpaid. Would that you had to pay the taxes to support that.</p>
<p>Teachers around here are paid very, very well.</p>
<p>Also, they answer emails all night long and during the weekends, from the students, in my experience. No complaints.</p>
<p>I mean, maybe it takes a while, but my daughters have made monday morning appts to go over confusing homework material before school on a sunday afternoon, through the email.</p>
<p>No more than I do for clients, myself, but surprised to read some of the responses on here.</p>
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<p>Being a business consultant is worlds away from being a school teacher. Last I checked, it does not pay a six-figured plus salary, commands much respect…especially from upper/upper-middle class parents who treats them little better or even sometimes worse than retail/babysitter/fast food service workers from what I’ve heard from teacher friends and seen firsthand at various schools, comp you for materials used as part of your job, or require being on-call 24/7.* </p>
<p>In short, you’re feeling entitled to impose business norms of your profession that aren’t applicable for K-12 school teachers or most educators i know of.</p>
<p>^Cue the violins and cut me a freaking break. Do you have any clue what we pay in school taxes? Here’s a hint. You would not want to have to pay them and hear people complain about how underpaid they are.</p>
<p>So long as she gets her part of the application in before the deadline, she should be fine.</p>
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<p>Are teachers in your suburbs being paid as much as business consultants*…especially those with 20+ years of experience like Pizzagirl? </p>
<p>Moreover, are you one of those who believes that because one is a “public servant” that it entitles the public at large to treat them as poorly as/worse than many treat retail/fast food service workers?? </p>
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<li>Recalled one cousin-in-law who worked for one of the big-named consulting outfits out of undergrad making a minimum of $60-80,000 starting back in the early '90s. Don’t know about your area…but a first-year teacher in my area is lucky to be making in the low $30k…and that’s if he/she has a Masters.</li>
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<p>in chicago they start at 75K.</p>
<p>In the suburbs, they make six figures on average. But, no complaints, our teachers are highly responsive and do a great job.</p>
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<p>Is that current or back in the early '90s when my cousin-in-law started her consulting gig with $60-80k straight out from undergrad?</p>
<p>I don’t know about the city.</p>
<p>But, I do know that in the suburbs it has been that way for quite some time, now. It’s why people move here and why the housing market stays strong, always.</p>
<p>But, it’s most of the suburban area. It’s a demanding place to teach, and the teachers, if they like you, will tell you that the parents can be a double edged sword. They can count on us to take care of a lot of stuff, but we are also demanding.</p>
<p>They LOVE email. they no longer have to speak to any of us on the phone. :p</p>
<p>But, they will make appts for monday morning on a sunday, because by monday, the kid will already be behind.</p>
<p>I understand, however, that it can be variable, and that teachers are not always paid as well in other places. Around here, they complain about the parents, but they don’t complain about what they are being paid.</p>
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<p>First, I don’t treat retail / fast food service workers, teachers or anyone else poorly, and no one is my “servant.” So you’re out of line there.</p>
<p>But it really has nothing to do with what one makes. My entry level people don’t get paid what I do (or what teachers here in the Chicago area make - and poetgirl is entirely correct), but if they have any ambition whatsoever to get ahead, they take the simple and non-time-consuming step of checking their emails over the weekend (from their iPhones or iPads for all I care – our employer provides both) and moving things ahead / getting prepared for what they will do when at their desks on Monday. This is not something extraordinary or reserved for the world of six-figure consultants; it’s known as having pride in one’s job and taking it seriously and caring. If this is oh-so-much-bother for someone that they want all kinds of accolades for checking their freakin’ e-mail, color me unimpressed.</p>
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<p>Taking a whopping 5 minutes out of your weekend to check email and respond / keep things moving does not constitute “your employer effectively owning all of your time.” Spare me the hyperbole.</p>
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Not treated poorly last I looked. Do you want them to be chauferred to school in limos? No answer required. No amount of money would be enough in your stupid book. Do you have ANY clue how much we pay in taxes? Someday you will. And on that day, you will not say “gee, how can I pay more?”</p>
<p>ETA: If you do…feel free to send a check. I haven’t known a governing body to reject a contribution yet.</p>
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<p>I don’t see how the last sentence is applicable as to you considering that comment was actually in reply to sylvan8798 whose comment and tone does remind me of those who’d treat such folks…especially those who are “public servants” and thus, should be grateful that said taxpayer paid their salaries and should kowtow to whatever demands they make…however unreasonable, encroaching on their off-time, not stipulated in the contract of position, etc. </p>
<p>It’s a tone that’s unfortunately very familiar to me as someone who has worked retail and knowing many friends and some cousins who worked food service, retail, dealing directly with the public in public sector areas, and those who are schoolteachers. </p>
<p>I’ve also witness this negative contemptuous treatment teachers received in both middle/high school from upper/upper-middle class parents who seemed to expect special treatment because “they paid the taxes” or other “you’re completely beholden to me” type ** while working parent-teacher conferences as a translator. Funny how they’'re always from the upper-east side or some other posh Manhattan neighborhood. </p>
<p>Moreover, unless the contract of a specific teacher specifies 24/7 availability in terms of contact/response, it’s something that’s not the professional norm in the teaching profession. While a few teachers may avail themselves 24/7…they’re going out of their way and IMO should be treated as an extended courtesy, not an entitlement.</p>
<p>^Utterly clueless. It would come as a shock to you to know that I adjunct at a public (directional) college. But then, shock is the least of your worries. You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried. </p>
<p>But then, who says you weren’t trying?</p>
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<p>Coincidentally, most classmates who were inclined to teach specifically said they preferred to teach at the college level over K-12 because there’s more social prestige and they won’t have to deal with the same level of crap their K-12 counterparts deal with because their students are usually adults, not minors. </p>
<p>Also, K-12 teaching vs teaching at the college level from what I’ve seen is like comparing apples and cranberries. </p>
<p>As someone who subbed for a friend’s community college course, I didn’t face anywhere near the classroom disciplinary challenges* or student/parental drama that the K-12 teachers I’ve seen experienced. </p>
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<p>Well, ok, then, cobrat, if something reminds you or one of your innumerable cousins of a feeling you have, then it must be correct. Because certainly my saying that it is not unreasonable for a professional who cares about her job to spend 5 minutes checking emails on weekends is EXACTLY the same thinking that I’m entitled to boss said teacher around as though she were my personal servant and that if she doesn’t say how high when I say jump, I should remind her that I pay her salary. Yep, you got that one right.</p>
<p>I have absolutely never treated any of my children’s teachers with anything other than politeness and respect. I’m sorry you can’t tell the difference between professional expectations and contempt, but I would appreciate it if you would stop projecting contempt into situations where it doesn’t exist. You have this tendency to take feelings from your childhood and project them into every situation – how the neighbors made you feel, how the principal made you feel, how your friends’ parents made you feel … Stop it. It doesn’t apply. We can have a discussion about whether it’s reasonable or not for a teacher to check email without anyone acting as though the teacher has to be a parent’s personal servant.</p>
<p>^Um, what is your point, cobrat?</p>