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[quote=Anonymous]How many years have you been teaching, OP? I've been at my school for 12 years now and I am at a point where I have a really good balance.  I work 8-4 or 4:30 and most days I don't need to take work home-- usually only in crunch times (report cards, etc).  I've been at my school a while so I have also been able to step back now that I have young kids-- I'm not doing things like chairing committees and chaperoning dances these days, and I feel like the community accepts that since I did it so much in my childless days.

I will say that it definitely was not like this when I was a new teacher-- I worked ridiculous hours and was completely overwhelmed.

I work at a small private school in DC.  This has also made a huge difference.  I have more planning time, I have half the students I did when I was in public (I teach middle school) so I have a lot less grading to do, I have much more autonomy in the classroom, and the discipline and behavior issues are greatly reduced.  There are drawbacks of course-- pay and benefits are no where comparable to what I got in public.  For me, the tradeoff has been worth it.  [/quote]

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