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Petition to Principal and Superintendent
Dear Dr. Iannelli and Superintendent Lindsey,
We write to you today as the teachers of John Bowne High School out of intense concern about the extraordinary amount of work we are doing to transcribe assignments and grades from Google Classroom to Skedula. The Department of Education urged schools to migrate to the DOE central domain and by doing so we lost the integration feature between Google Classroom and Skedula that most other schools using their G-suite accounts continue to have. The absence of this feature creates duplicative work that requires many unnecessary hours of transcribing not only of grades but also of assignments. The DOE and John Bowne High School chose Google classroom as the method for delivering instruction virtually and that platform allows teachers to create an assignment, assign it to students, allows students to submit the assignment which teachers can then view, grade and provide feedback for. Without the integration feature teachers now have to create an assignment in Skedula which was already created in gc and then transfer grades from google classroom to Skedula. Many teachers are doing this by hand, with 2 devices, or downloading templates for each assignment creating doubles of csv sheets for each assignment in order to transcribe these grades.
We had hoped for this issue to be resolved by Skedula/Google/DOE in the first few weeks of the fall, but as the months go by it has become clear to us that the issue may not have a resolution and in the meantime, we are at a breaking point. We can no longer continue to do this extra work. The amount of time and energy it takes to create assignments, assign them and review them virtually is significant in comparison to teaching in person, adding on the additional work of transferring grades to another platform feels inhumane especially when we cannot see the benefit it has to our students.
Our teaching staff has always gone above and beyond for our students. We will continue to do the difficult work that is required of us during this extraordinary time, but we implore you to trust us to do our jobs without any unnecessary burdens. Parents, administrators and counselors can be provided information about students in a variety of ways and we are willing to do that as we always have. Teachers should have the ability to choose the gradebook platform that works best for their classes and students while fulfilling their professional duties of keeping accurate grades, communicating with parents and guidance when students are failing or struggling and uploading grades to STARS. We implore you to resolve this issue so that we can continue working with our students in the best way possible without the added stress of transcribing assignments and grades for the convenience of administration.
Sincerely,
Teachers of John Bowne High SchoolRead more
kate connorsAstoria, NY, United States
115 supporters
Created Dec 18, 2020
Petition to UK Parliament, Boris Johnson, United Nations, Council of the European Union, George Eustice MP, Zac Goldsmith MP
negative blood test for rabies and carry paperwork including pet passports – and many animals don’t meet a pet will need both an EU & UK pet passport, more paperwork, more cost and more time
It can by lessening UK pet waiver restrictions, cost and paperwork.
Every evacuee have lost their homesRead more
Katie LiLondon, ENG, United Kingdom
54,289 supporters
Created Feb 28, 2022
Petition to U.S. Senate, Donald J. Trump
Hi my name is Paul G Kratsas , I am doing a mandatory minimum of life without parole fora non violent drug offence/conspiracy no drugs or controlled buys in my case just the word of a drug dealer in prison trying to get time off and he did ..he was released in 2002 after having 12 pounds of coke in his car and for selling to under cover agents . I have been in prison now for over 27 years since May of 1992. Im not saying I'm innocent just saying let the punishment fit the crime. How can a person that commits murder get less time and do less time than me? It's crazy. If I was sentenced under today's laws I would receive 10 years or less for one as of 1999 Aprendi ruling all fact that increase a person sentence must be found by a jury but its not retroactively apply to me or people convicted from 1988 to 1999 who are not on direct appeal than the First Step Law made so that a person must do one year on a prior drug offence for it to count for a sentence to increase my two state drug offence not only would it run together and counted as one but I got probation so they don't count then ..the statute that I got lefe under was changed to 25 years but again the law makers did not make it retroactive even after all the programs an college V T course and I was still denied clemency from Obama at the same time people that didn't fit administrations own criteria was given clemency a better way is neeed not to mention worked my way from MAX SECurity Prison to a Medium and I'm now in a low security attending two vocational trades one in welding and the other in culinary arts. A feat very few with Life have achieved . A person does not do all this without a commandment to change and turn a negative into a positive. Now I need everyone's help to be my voice. to right this wrong even if it's one dollar and more so he will tell a friend to help bring attention and awareness to my case fro clemency from President Trump so I can put an end to this nightmare that I live day in and day out . I thing I have done enough time and paid my price to society by signing clemency pettition along with a donation that will go to legal fees and a fresh start opon my release. I do not know Kim Kardashian or any NFL players t bring attention to my case but I have faith in numbers of the people to get the attention of President Trump to just take a look at my clemency and see for himself the punishment does NOT FIT THE CRIME. HELP ME right this wrong with your help WE CAN # FREE PJRead more
Katherine NowreyWilmington, DE, United States
2,135 supporters
Created Sep 7, 2019
Petition to Al march, Michael webster, Ted Cruz, Beto O'Rourke
This petition is to get Mr.Newman taxed on paper because he EXCESSIVELY uses paper through-out the school year, Knowing the school district gives the students laptops to reduce the paper demand in schools in the school district. Read more
Michael WebsterEl Paso, TX, United States
17 supporters
Created Nov 30, 2018
Petition to rep.jennifer.loon@house.mn , Mark Dayton, mde.commissioner@state.mn.us , Julianne Ortman, Joe Hoppe
regulators and the Minnesota Department of Education to REDUCE the PAPERWORK to a 50% of what exist today), which represents 512 - 768 hrs of IEP paperwork and 1MM-2MM pages of paper
Each progress reportRead more
Cecilia LaubeChaska, MN, United States
124 supporters
Created Apr 29, 2016
Petition to West Berkshire Council
We, the undersigned, call upon West Berkshire Council to adopt the following policy without delay:
West Berkshire Council will ensure that it charges the correct amounts of money due to it for any and all services for which it levies charges and will reimburse any resident or service user who has been charged in error or has been charged where no charge should have been levied.
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Maria DobsonKintbury, ENG, United Kingdom
1,113 supporters
Created Mar 1, 2022
Victory!
Petition to Ms. Supriya Katyal
lost our paperwork more than once, we've been sent denial letters, and we are now on the 3rd attempt continually lost and then requested replacement paperwork, impounded tax and insurance payments. WeRead more
Toni EngbergLakewood, CA, United States
99,089 supporters
Created Feb 6, 2012
In NSW the wait time for adoptees to receive their paperwork has blown out from 8 months to is often already a difficult journey. Once their paperwork is received they then have another waitRead more
Diane CuffAustralia
585 supporters
Created Feb 8, 2023
Petition to MDHHS / C.P.S/ Foster care
past history against us and especially when the parents have all their paperwork with them so itRead more
Tamieka TaylorPort Huron, MI, United States
101 supporters
Created Mar 3, 2018
allegedly because there has been an increase in people falsifying paperwork and non compliance family and I had a dog on route today, she had all her checks, vaccinations and correct paperwork. She isRead more
gareth hughesKelty, United Kingdom
45,289 supporters
Created Apr 15, 2022
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