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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have more meetings than ever before (ZOOM) and lesson preps, work plans emailed home, lots of parent correspondence,  ZOOM class meetings.!!

---Teacher and mom[/quote]

So is this what fills the other 7 hours of the day beyond the 45 minute class? Also I’m not getting work plans emailed from my teacher. It’s zoom class and a few links to other video-based learning. [/quote]

Different teacher and mom here. Like most secondary teachers, I have more than one prep. So I’m conducting more than one 45 minute class, planning more than one 45 min class, and assessing more than one subject. One of my preps is a course for which there are not supplemental materials readily available via a Google search. To put together a 45 min lesson normal, I invested about 90 min of planning previously. Now, that has doubled as well because I don’t have access to the places I used to get materials from.

The other teacher wasn’t joking about the paperwork. That has not abated at all. On 3/12, I filled out screening paperwork for a child. The child’s doctor misplaced it and only let me know yesterday. That paperwork took me an hour when it was fresh in my head. No telling how long it will take now.

And there’s trainings, team meetings, and emails revising what were told my admin an hour before.

I’m not complaining. We are all in this together. But please stop your claims that teachers are not working. For the most part, we are working as hard as before, just differently. And spending even more money out of our own pockets to fill the gap between what MCPS provides and what is, in fact, needed to do our jobs. We are limited by rules that MCPS is putting in place. These rules do seem to be for the welfare of the students, but if you dislike them, don’t blame the teachers and don’t blame the union. Someone on DCUM is spreading the rumor that MCEA got a 2 hour break for teachers. That’s completely false. The break is for students to travel to pick up lunches and then eat. I have a daily Zoom meeting in that time frame.

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I don’t think people are questioning that teachers should get paid (they should.) Just that teachers should be with their actual students online more often. elementary school teachers don’t have multiple classes to prep for.  [/quote]

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