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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting teacher threads are always filled with teachers claiming they work 60+ hours a week, but there's always a delay in grading, sending communication, etc. 🤔[/quote]

You have no idea how much BS teachers have to deal with.  Learning support meetings. Team meetings. Grade level meetings. Department meetings. Curriculum change meetings. Faculty professional development. If you're at a private school, teachers often have to run clubs, attend games and faculty events, and coach.[/quote]

But that’s a lot of jobs even if the packaging is different. I work in a client facing job, and I have plenty of admin work, projects I am “voluntold” to work on, etc. what makes teachers so different or special?[/quote]

There’s zero room for promotion or pay raises in teaching. Presumably many people do all the extra voluntold BS in their careers to impress higher ups and potentially get a bonus at the end of year for meeting sales targets or hitting some metric, or add it to their resume for the next career move. There is no “up” in teaching unless you want to completely remove yourself from the classroom and go into administration (arguably a completely different field). Roles like “team lead” or “department chair” or “club lead” are just more work with no extra time/money/privileges that come with the title. It’s just “teach all your same classes AND find time to plan a meeting and organize logistics for a team of adults too”.

If there was no such thing as a raise or a bonus or a promotion for good performance, would you still work as hard at all the extras in your job? I don’t think many people would. It’s impressive so many teachers do. There is zero external motivation, it’s all internal.[/quote]

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