MCPS 2nd grade teacher assigned big project to be due in class on Nov 21st, day before Thankksgiving

[Anonymous]

Wow. Some angry teachers on here. Can we not give ourselves a bad rep?

[Anonymous]

Regarding the overtime thing:

I'm a psychologist and I sometimes have to work overtime.. Not as a rule, but whenever it is needed to take care of professional obligations to my clients. I check emails at home, carry a pager one week every few months, and I don't get paid overtime. I'm on salary.

FWIW, I make $46k, similar to what many public school teachers make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or all those "professional days" where kids don't have school. These all add up, and add up fast.

Are you f-ing kidding me?

I'm sorry that your "daycare" is off that day.

FWIW, don't complain, idiot. If you had the money to take the private route, the professional days double.

Your world is very small, PP.

so very small

Classy MoCo teacher example above!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was waiting for this thread to take a turn towards teachers having too much time "off." Because lessons and activities and graded papers just fall out of the sky, so teachers should never been paid for working when the students aren't even there! After all, lawyers are only paid for the time they spend sitting in front of clients or in court, surgeons are only paid for the time they spend actually performing the surgery, and retail employees only get paid when the store is actually open.

Conferences ARE held after the school days end. It varies from school to school, elementary to secondary, but conferences are held in the morning BEFORE school, and in the early afternoon through evening. If they were strictly after school, it would take a week. Do you think it's fair for someone to work required overtime every night for a week without pay? But, since teachers are overpaid and overappreciated anyway, I guess that's how it should be.

I work overtime for no pay all the time. When a big project is in the works, I work evenings and weekends if necessary.

"Overtime" is generally a concept used by people who punch a clock and are paid by the hour. It is not a term normally used by professionals.

uh huh

And how much do YOU make, sweets?

My friend works OT, too, but makes $200K for putting in the same amount of hours per week I do.

So fuck off.

I'm a lawyer and make $78K a year. Less than my DH, a teacher, does.

Your use of profanity is distracting from whatever it is you are trying to communicate.

[Anonymous]

The people screwing the children are the dumb parents that are teaching kids that an extra day of vacation is more important than school. School is important. If you don't take it seriously, don't be surprised when your kids don't. If your kids grades suffer because you choose vacation over school, that's your fault, not the teachers'.

[Anonymous]

I think the "teacher" on here being a jerk is probably not really a teacher, at least not in the DC area. That's just my guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people screwing the children are the dumb parents that are teaching kids that an extra day of vacation is more important than school. School is important. If you don't take it seriously, don't be surprised when your kids don't. If your kids grades suffer because you choose vacation over school, that's your fault, not the teachers'.

These parents are teaching them that family matters.
As for another morning of filling out make-work worksheets until early release....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


These parents are teaching them that family matters.
As for another morning of filling out make-work worksheets until early release....

There are 180 school days per year. Its not even half of the year. I think a reasonable family can still teach kids that family matters and that school is important. Its not that the actual work for that day is critical, its teaching the mindset and work ethic that every day counts and that school needs should be prioritized.

I think if the schools just decided that too many people early before thanksgiving and cancelled school for that day, parents would just take their kids out on the Tuesday. School shouldn't be optional, and I sure wouldn't want my kids teachers writing off that day of school because other parents want to get away early...

[Anonymous]

These parents are teaching them that family matters.
As for another morning of filling out make-work worksheets until early release....

Easy solution. Homeschool, take the F, discuss alternative plans or get out of my classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

These parents are teaching them that family matters.
As for another morning of filling out make-work worksheets until early release....

Easy solution. Homeschool, take the F, discuss alternative plans or get out of my classroom.

We do lots of supplemental teaching at home and on day trips/vacations. Both my husband and I have not been impressed with the ES curriculum here, we fear our children will be quite behind in terms of critical thinking skills and total material exposed to if/when we return to England.