I just posted my grades. I am physically ill. So many students just crapped out in the end. There was no way I could salvage some grades. If they had just talked to me or at least thrown something in the dropbox so I could get them some points. But no. Just ghosted. Just gone.

I know I shouldn't care more than them but I can't help it. I called more students than ever before. I sent second and third chance emails. I texted them. But just...nothing. Gone. Vanished. Others tossed in a word salad from another course's assignment. I couldn't save them.

This was by far the hardest, saddest, most difficult semester ever. I gave out more As than ever before as well, but those students toughed it out to the end & earned them. I gave out incomplete grades, but those students talked to me. I just couldn't get everyone to stay afloat.

I feel like a failure as a teacher this semester. I hate that I can't save everyone. I HATE it. This semester will be weighing on me heavily. The students that fizzled out were amazing. My heart is broken into a million pieces.

Cue the onslaught of grade complaints.