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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I started twenty years ago, I could get my work done in 40 or 45 hours a week. I had balance.

I work 7 days a week now. It never ends. I’m always grading papers, responding to emails, and revising lessons. If I’m awake, I’m working or thinking about the work that needs to get done.

The demands of the job have grown exponentially.

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As a parent, I also felt we have to enrich so much outside school. Somehow it is very exhausting to be parent in this country. [/quote]

I’m the teacher PP.

We have lost our way. 20 years ago, my job was to teach. I had clear lessons, clear expectations, and time to provide clear feedback. I had fewer students and more planning time.

Now I have larger classes and more of them. I am no longer supposed to teach. We aren’t supposed to be “the sage on the stage”; in fact, we are marked down in our evaluations if we are caught doing that. We are supposed to be the “guide on the side,” as students learn cooperatively through group work and gallery walks. I am now a guide, a counselor, a social worker, a nurse, an entertainer, a mentor, and a data collector. Teacher? That’s just one of many hats now and I don’t think it’s considered the most important.

And this new version of teaching isn’t benefiting the students. And those of us who have been in the profession a long time know it. [/quote]

Add to this the lack of discipline and accountability due to lax and overindulgent parenting, and administrations more interested in the shiny new thing they can market rather than the daily work of education, teaching is not what it should be.
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Absolutely. And administration has grown. Each new admin comes up with some sort of initiative which leads to more work for teachers, and often the work leads nowhere useful. It simply takes us away from what we should be doing: teaching. [/quote]

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