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[quote=Anonymous]Including all the out of classroom stuff-lesson planning, grading, professional development, preparing classroom resources, developing a website for my students to check their assignments, responding to student/parent/admin/other teacher emails, extracurriculars (I sponsored a club and coached a team at different times) , tutoring, etc--I worked 60-70 hours a week as a high school teacher. But this was in FL and my salary was way less than yours! Around 40,000 starting pay. I know a lot of people put in long hours for low pay but I still think it's way too much to expect someone to work so much for so little. I agree I'd love to work more weeks out of the year and put in fewer hours. People talk about how nice it is that teachers get the summers off (and it is!) but a) I did not receive a paycheck during the summer and b) I would much rather not have such a long break and also not work quite as hard during the school year if that was an option.

I think this is a big reason so many people leave the profession after a short time. Teaching is an emotionally draining job and it's so easy to take on too much (and/or be required to do too much) and get burned out.[/quote]

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