The quarantine has sent everyone into a panic— students, parents, teachers alike have been grasping at strings on what to do. Now that school has become an online thing for the rest of the year, and possibly for the beginning of next year as well, students are getting comfortable at home with their extended summer. There is one thing that keeps students from relaxing though: the workload assigned by teachers.
Now that education has been transferred to the digital world, it is much easier for teachers to contact students, and it is much easier to assign work. It doesn’t take a genius to notice that the workload for students has increased. Either this, or students have slowly begun to give up.
It’s the end of the year, everyone is stuck at home, in difficult times it’s a task to keep up with things like tests and homework. Even teachers have experienced this funk, where it feels impossible to get out of this odd state. It makes sense that motivation has decreased, and therefore grades have dropped as well.
Teachers have also been assigning work in bulk, which becomes overwhelming to handle for those who are already behind, and thus the cycle of procrastination begins and never ends. One of two assignments later, and the students’ grades are in the gutter. With a pandemic at hand, grades should be the last thing a student is worrying about.
Many students who rely on outside sources for food and shelter should not be worried about logging onto Dadeschools for their attendance. Many kids can’t afford logging on, and some have no WiFi to do this. In times where everyone should be taking it easy, teachers throw all this work on kids and expect them to have it done by a set date.
A lot of this work includes finals, AICE projects, AP projects, things students would normally get help with in class. Instead, now students are being tossed all the weight and expected to burden it. It’s simply unfair.
Teachers shape the future of many kids’ lives. They are expected to be patient, kind, sincere, and so forth. In troubling times, these traits should be emphasized not hidden. Excess work not only burdens the students but it also burdens the teachers. A mutual agreement must be made for things to boil down.
