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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a former teacher. My perspective is 1) teachers underestimate how overworked everyone else is. They think they’re uniquely working unpaid overtime when just about anyone in a salaried role is feeling the same pressure, especially if they want to be regarded as good as their job. Same as teachers. 2) A ton of this, teachers bring on themselves. Take decorating rooms. No one is making them do that. You choose to go blow $200 at Michaels and then spend a weekend taping kitschy crap to the walls. [/quote]
I'm not so sure that "everyone else" is as overworked as teachers.  I've had a few jobs, and nothing was as bad as teaching.  I worked 60-70 hours a week as a teacher, and it still wasn't enough for the administration.  They were constantly trying to make more work for us.  At other jobs, you might work like that for a while, but then you move and don't work quite as much.  Or at least you get paid a lot more.  But in teaching, it's year after year after year - you can't move up, and your only raise is an annual COLA, if you're lucky.  It's not just the hours, but also the constant nature of it, with no end or change in sight.[/quote]
+1 I'm an ex-teacher and I'm not sure either.  I taught high school, where nobody brought on extra work by over-decorating their rooms.  There was only so much planning and grading that you could say teachers "brought on themselves."  [/quote]

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