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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MS teacher here.

I think a lot of this debate comes back to what you believe about your role as a teacher. For me (and many others), that role extends beyond the bell. If a student needs extra help and is willing to stay after school to seek that help, many of us are happy to provide it. The one-on-one or small group time allows opportunities to better get to know our students and build relationships, and it helps build in our students a sense of responsibility and ownership of their learning.

IMO, those who seem to see teaching as strictly bell-to-bell and feel the need to consult regulations for something like giving an hour of time once a week to support struggling students really make the rest of us look bad and should re-examine why they're still in this profession.[/quote]

What you describe, being willing to stay after school and tutor, sounds like a choice not a requirement. Few teachers I know go bell to bell. Many of us put in “extra hours”. I teach in an elementary school and left st 5:00 today. That was nine hours of being busy, take away lunch. Usually I leave around 4:00. I go in for the occasional morning meeting, help with an after school event, etc. I met with a parent after school yesterday. My role extends beyond the bell, but I am choosing to do what I do. I’m not being required to do things after school on a regular basis. That’s different. Some people have their own children to pick up from daycare after work. Are they making us look bad because they have to leave at 3:45 to pick their kid up from daycare?[/quote]

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