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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are burned out. I can’t repeat this enough.

High school teachers are in front of 140-150 teenagers each day, dealing with unimaginable behaviors. When their planning period comes, they are now covering classes since we have a shortage of subs. I didn’t even get to eat lunch twice last week.

Planning lessons and grading work doesn’t happen at school anymore. There’s no time. It happens after we cook our family’s dinner. It happens after we put our own kids to bed. It happens all weekend, and sometimes we have to use our own leave to catch up.

It is unfortunate that students have to wait for feedback, or not get any at all. But it is equally unfortunate that we demand that our teachers sacrifice their own families to get work done. [/quote]

There's no excuse for not letting teachers have a lunch period or taking over their planning periods regularly. No excuse. I don't know how MCPS allows this.

But I'm not sure why you are complaning about after hours work. My parents were teachers and they always were grading at home and on weekends. This is not new. This is how salaried jobs work. Everyone I know who has a salaried job does some amount of work after hours and on weekends no matter what that job is. If you don't want to take work home with you you you should choose a different profession.[/quote]

Teachers are taking your advice. We are leaving in droves. MCPS used to be a place teachers flocked to. Now it has a dreadful reputation, and teachers look elsewhere.

Your parents had it easy compared to today’s teachers. I’ve been at this over 20 years. Teaching 2 decades ago was a BREEZE compared to now. And “taking home work” used to mean 1-2 hours of work a night. Now it means 3 or more, as well as full weekends dedicated to work. I pulled a 70 hour week last week.

Yes, working after hours is part of the job. But now we receive NO (and I repeat: NO) real time at work to get planning and grading done. [b]If a task is essential to our job, we should receive some time to complete it. [[/b]/quote]

Yes this is a nice ideal but not reality for many professions.  In fact many professions don’t allocate time for anything.  It is up to the person to figure out how to schedule things in.  Be in training, self reviews, doing team members, creating presentations, attending meetings, etc.  If I could get people to stop double or triple booking me for meetings what a day that would be.

And while I truly truly believe that some things have to change in education the things that boggles the mind is that you all have a union and get tenure.  Most corporate employees don’t get either.  They have no one to speak up for them and can be fired at will.  So I don’t understand why MCEA is not get enormous pressure from teachers to fight for resolution to real problems.  Like it’s an expensive union and everyone should be crystal clear on what their agenda is at this point beyond more money.[/quote]

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