I did promise my year 11s that whatever work they did for me I would mark and turn around within 24 hours since they were my priority. This was in a vain attempt to get them to redraft coursework and do practice exam papers. It didn’t work. So often I wanted to shake them and say, “stop wasting time!” It still feels like a failing on my part that I couldn’t get them to see the need for urgency.
The start of one lesson was so bad I spent half an hour adding up all the late minutes to every lesson and explaining how many extra lessons that gave other students in other schools. They stared on blankly.
I resorted to having mocks every Friday and I would do an hour’s marking on Sunday evening ready for Monday but when I put the exam papers on the desks in front of them the boys would stop for a second during their animated discussions about computer games, glance at the grade, blink, and then return to their conversations, deaf to anything else going on in class.
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