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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers deserve more planning time.   For that to happen you might be inconvenienced.  At our school kids can stay at school and leave at regular time on early release Mondays.    You all want good teachers,  but you don't want to provide them with the time, $$, and respect they deserve.  [/quote]

I ask this kindly but what has changed in the over time? I don't recall near as many teacher work days when I was in elementary and the only early dismissals was the last day of school. [/quote]

Quite a bit has changed since the 80s/90s. Back then they just gave teachers textbooks and left them alone for the majority of the school year. Now there are so much micromanaging, and initiatives, and data collection  with meetings - teaching is about 1/2 the actual workload.[/quote]

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This is the problem. Teachers are now being asked to do the work of what should be at least two people vs just teach how they used to be able to when we were all in school. [/quote]

When I started teaching two decades ago, I could get most of my work done during my 40-hour week.

Now I assume that none of my work can get done during those 40 hours. My planning occurs every evening. My grading occurs on Saturdays and Sundays. I work 7 days a week just to keep up now.

If I could reclaim some planning time at work, I could get my Saturdays back![/quote]

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