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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I taught high school my contract hours were 7-3. School was from 7:50-2:50. So providing after school tutoring would not be part of my contract hours/I would not be paid for it. I did, however, stay late one afternoon per week, sometimes more toward the end of the semester w exams coming up, to offer free (unpaid) after school tutoring. I also worked at least 3 hours each day at home w planning, grading, professional development, ongoing education to make myself a better teacher etc. that time I worked from home was also unpaid.

I understand lots of people work outside their contracted hours. But no one should be expected to work that much without pay. Just because it happens in many jobs doesn’t make it ok.[/quote]

But a child could have come in at 7 for extra help.[/quote]

They could have but i probably would have been in a meeting. We had meetings (IEPs, 504s, staff and dept meetings, etc) practically every morning.[/quote]

Oh also, I never (not once) in 5 years of teaching had a student ask to come in the morning or just show up in the morning before school for extra help. If they asked for extra help at all (which was rare) they’d ask to come in during lunch or after school. More often I’d have parents email asking if their kid could come in and I’d tell them the kid could come on the designated day each week that I stayed late. Most of those kids never showed up. High school students and even middle school students overwhelmingly don’t listen to their parents about coming to the teacher for extra help. The ones who did come were usually good students who had been absent and wanted to catch up or just didn’t quite understand a concept; the kids who really needed that extra help never showed up.[/quote]

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