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[quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how working contract hours is possible. I'm in fairfax, and I have kids or CT meetings for all but 3 hours of my week. I have 3 middle school preps, and due to my wonky schedule see 2 of those courses 3 times, and one 5 times. That means I have 11 different lessons to prepare each week...in 3 hours of free time. Honestly, I have dropped all extras--no clubs, no tutoring, no volunteering for anything. Even still, I think is physically impossible to plan a lesson, make the activities, and run the copies for a single lesson in 15-20 minutes.

Honest question: are people suggesting I should hand out textbooks and just set kids loose to read/learn the material themselves? That would make it possible to leave at 2:40 when my contract ends. As a parent, would you be okay with that? I would be horrified if that's what my child's teachers did. Why have a teacher at all if that's all that do?

I love what I do and don't complain about the workload much, but the idea that it can reasonably be done within the contract window is mind boggling.[/quote]

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