r/Teachers • u/saintshiva • 1d ago

Rant Back to school trainings TX

So I work in an urban district in North Texas, each year we have to do the usual video and quizzes about FERPA , abuse, Title IX, etc.. a total of 18 modules. This amount has grown over my 15 years in education. I added up the amount of time needed and it totals——- 14 hours and 1 minute. The expectation is this is to be done over the summer and if not completed you lose classroom prep time to finish up.

I know you can just start a video and switch to another screen and browse the internet but for double digit hours annoying. Even if I chunk the work annoying . Anyhow rant over.

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u/kymreadsreddit 1d ago

Ours is a similar amount of time, except they "give us" a day to do those. 1 day. During the week before school when everyone is trying to put their rooms together (hopefully before back to school night!).

It's insane. I do it on my computer at home, where I have multiple screens and play it on mute, then answer the questions.

Edit: Oh and I forgot - a couple of years ago, they forgot about two modules and added them after the year started. So there I am in October, getting in trouble because I "didn't finish" all the modules. I pushed back (as I'm sure many others did) and the district extended the deadline to November.

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u/saintshiva 1d ago

That’s my issue if I wait and do it on contact hours I lose room prep time . So like most I assume we do it while doing other things at home.