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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can work 40 hours per week. You just can't be the martyr that some teachers like to be.[/quote]
I think 45 is maybe a bit closer to reality, though some weeks can be less. It's like spending money on your classroom, in our area it isn't usually required but something people choose to do. My district has one after school meeting a week (staff and committee alternate)[/quote]

Except 45 isn’t enough.

If I have a stack of 120 essays to grade, that’s 30 hours of uninterrupted work. I get 30 minutes of planning a day. That stack alone would take me 60 DAYS worth of planning periods to grade, and that doesn’t account for:
Other assignments that need grading 
Lesson planning 
IEP / 504 updates 
Responding to tons of student/parent emails

Hence the 60 hours this job takes. If we’re really talking about WHY teachers are quitting - this is it. You CAN’T do this job in 40 or 45 hours. Not well.

If we really wanted to do education correctly, teachers would spend no more than half the work week in front of students, leaving the other half to actually do the bulk of the work.

(We would also dramatically revamp the admin level. I’ve worked for far too many administrators who create work for teachers simply  to justify their jobs, but that’s another discussion.)
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