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[quote=Anonymous]Does some of this like Saturday detentions go away with seniority?  I am surprised he has coaching, administrative, teaching, AND Saturday detentions.  Is this typical for the other educators at his school?  What I’m trying to figure out is did he have to take on these things and was he being compensated enough to make it worth it when he said yes. Like would he be making 50K if he just had one job of teaching and maybe said yes to all these other things to make 20K more and you guys didn’t discuss what this would mean with kids?  Or maybe pre-kids it didn’t matter and he just hasn’t  thought about adjusting.    I have a friend who is an educator/administrator and she eventually left for a higher paying private school job because they were straight up taking advantage.  Like she was supposed to get grants and run summer camps during the summer with no additional compensation on top of her salaried work for the summer.  Yet anyone else they would have to gotten to do the same thing they were going to pay that person.  It’s one of those things where they had to split out her job when she left because no one that knew better would take all that on for what she was making.

Anyway, I think it’s fair to have a conversation that with 2 small kids something has to give.  That you have to budget so you can cut back on your hours (and pay) if you have to do the bulk of the childcare, he has to cut back what he does with the school (even if that meets a cut in pay), or you need some increase in salary enough to get some kind of help.  I’m assuming you don’t live close enough for family to help out.
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