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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here, and I know what OP is talking about.  Being with kids all day is hard, on top of being with your own children after school.  Teaching requires being "on" all day, with very little time to go to the bathroom or do anything on your own schedule.  I try to use as much time at school as possible for grading, prep, etc, so that I'm work "free" in the evenings.  However, this is hard, and usually I just work after the kids have gone to bed.  I have a day off on the weekend, where I don't touch work.  We usually spend this time as family.  I do lots of work on Sunday as well....I usually don't get much me time though.  We have cleaners twice a month.  Laundry is just a huge pile of clothes that gets done when we need more clothes.[/quote]

I feel like I could have written this!   I haven't gone back to work yet, but a friend of mine (also a teacher) is about to in the fall, and we were recently talking about how things are going to be different and how she's going to manage the daily grind on top of the teaching day.

I think one of the toughest things for me as a teacher was the early start time- but I taught HS.  I was out the door no later than 6 every morning.  If I had to get kids ready to leave at that hour, that would be very challening, even though I got to leave at 3 PM.

This may not be incredibly relevant, but my last year teaching HS before DS was born, I was studying for my PhD comprehensive exams and I gave myself a no-grading-papers-at-home policy in order to save my home time for studying.  People in my department said it was impossible, good luck, etc. etc., but on a block schedule, I had a 100-minute planning period daily, and sometimes that planning period included my 30 minute lunch.  In that time I could always get grading done because I was on a mission (in your case, your mission would be to get home to your children schoolwork-free).   I also tailored what I assigned to that goal-- I wasn't going to give the students things that were difficult for me to grade, and when I did give long unit exams, I made an answer sheet for them to fill in so that their answers were streamlined and easy to look at.   I think there are ways to get the most out of your time in the building, and that's how you'll feel the least restricted at home with your kids.

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