That's what one of my colleagues calls it when she has to grade a ton of stuff: grading jail. I'm not fond of the phrase, but that's how I've felt today.
I've been grading online technical writing proposals and other documents since 10:30 a.m.: it's now 11:30 p.m. I still have some calculations to make and grades to upload; then, I should be caught up at midterm time with that class. The students will have a sense of their midterm grades, and I can relax over the holiday weekend.
Wait! I still have half of the final exams and all of the final essays to grade from my Literature class that finished yesterday! What was I thinking?
And I'm not even going to *talk* about the student who emailed me, saying
"Im so in shock right now, I put alot of hard work into that proposal and you gave me nothing. I am on a long 5 day vacation right now, the proposal is behind me already, why did you do me like that. . . . I need to speak to you in person, Im very appauled by this"
[yes, "do me like that" and "appauled"] and
"I am getting a weird sense about the way I am being treated, and may have to consider dropping your course after,"
and
"I have to honestly say you were way too harsh on me for this proposal, Im an "A" writer. We need to set up a meeting so we can discuss the situation you have with me and see what is going on, i want to know all of my grades and figure out what is wrong before the July 7th deadline to drop this course and hopefully find a different instuctor for this course in the fall, i feel because of my topic you are treating me unfair. Hopefully after our meeting TUESDAY the 5th, I can feel better about being in your course, Im a good student and a good person and I dont deserve this grade."
I've been grading online technical writing proposals and other documents since 10:30 a.m.: it's now 11:30 p.m. I still have some calculations to make and grades to upload; then, I should be caught up at midterm time with that class. The students will have a sense of their midterm grades, and I can relax over the holiday weekend.
Wait! I still have half of the final exams and all of the final essays to grade from my Literature class that finished yesterday! What was I thinking?
And I'm not even going to *talk* about the student who emailed me, saying
"Im so in shock right now, I put alot of hard work into that proposal and you gave me nothing. I am on a long 5 day vacation right now, the proposal is behind me already, why did you do me like that. . . . I need to speak to you in person, Im very appauled by this"
[yes, "do me like that" and "appauled"] and
"I am getting a weird sense about the way I am being treated, and may have to consider dropping your course after,"
and
"I have to honestly say you were way too harsh on me for this proposal, Im an "A" writer. We need to set up a meeting so we can discuss the situation you have with me and see what is going on, i want to know all of my grades and figure out what is wrong before the July 7th deadline to drop this course and hopefully find a different instuctor for this course in the fall, i feel because of my topic you are treating me unfair. Hopefully after our meeting TUESDAY the 5th, I can feel better about being in your course, Im a good student and a good person and I dont deserve this grade."
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