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[quote=Anonymous]I try to leave by 4:30 each day (though sometimes I stay as late as 5) because my daycare closes at 6 and I have to sit in tons of DC traffic to make it in time. Plus I hate having my child in daycare until 6. So I leave usually by 4.

I pick up my child, go home and feed her dinner and take care of her until her bedtime at 7:30. Then some nights I sleep from 8-2am and then get up and work from 2am until I leave for work at 6:50am. Or sometimes I work from 7:30pm-1am and then sleep 1-6 before getting up.

Every single weekend I spend time buying things I need for my classroom, going to the library, lesson planning, reviewing student work, writing a weekly newsletter we send out, doing readings for our weekly professional development etc.

Every night I have emails from parents and colleagues that need to be answered.

I am constantly preparing materials for my kids - center materials in particular. Lesson planning. Analyzing assessments.

I have been working for about 10 years of my life. Only 3 of those years were as a classroom teacher and the other were in demanding office jobs. Those jobs were nothing compared to teaching.

You have to have lessons and activities planned for literally every single minute of the day that you have students.

It is exhausting. And one of the more annoying aspects is that people think you don't work hard. It's pretty insulting. [/quote]

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