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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone should’ve told me I shouldn’t be working Wednesdays! I’m meeting with groups of students all morning and in meetings all afternoon.

To everyone volunteering my personal, unpaid time to set up classrooms, post your email and I’ll send you the volunteer sign up genius!

I’m getting sick and tired of the teacher trash talk. I love teaching and love watching your children grow and learn but all this vitriol doesn’t make the $25/hr after taxes worth it. You need to realize, this will drive away the really good teachers, the ones that have options. Then you’ll really have something to complain about when the teachers that are left are inexperienced or inept.

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Do you know how many hours I work at home, outside of my pay.  I am sure millions of others do the same.   It is a SALARIED position.  You are not an hourly employee.  [/quote]

Exactly. All of us are exhausted and doing way more than is listed on our job descriptions! I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have a ton of extra work to do, plus of course caring for their own kids. I get frustrated when teachers imply that their circumstances are unique. [/quote]

+1000, teachers are not the only people who have had to adjust in the past year and the continued implication that they are unique is so frustrating. Many of us are putting in hours well above and beyond our normal tours of duty, some of which is attributable to the fact that schools remain closed, so do I get to pass around a sign up genius for you to do portions of my job in exchange for the portions of your job that I am currently doing?  [/quote]

+10000 - MCPS employees have truly shown this year how little they care about students at a time they were supposedly rolling out a new program about the physical, social, and emotional support of students.  I have sat with my child to get him online and have him work in the dining room and classes are abysmal soul sucking experience.  One teacher’s class yesterday was “independent work”. No review or instruction for the major unit test. Just directions to log of and work on your own.  Another teacher was driving his car during class. DL is a sh$t show. [/quote]

Never judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.

My contracted planning time is the hour your children are at lunch. So far this week, I spent my non-instructional and personal time:
-Planning synchronous and asynchronous activities for my students (each 45 minute lesson takes over an hour to plan and create google slides, none of my lessons are repeated)
- Planning lesson supports for my ESOL and Students with special needs
- Making phone calls and filling out forms because of an immediate student need
- grading, giving each student feedback, and entering those grades
- taking screenshots of completed assignments and filing them to be printed for the EOL file
- meeting with 2 different teams
- running to Target to purchase headphones for a student and delivering them to the student
- emailing and meeting over zoom with a parent to help resolve a tech issue
- During my 30 minute lunch- on Monday I had a meeting but meet with students on Tuesday for a lunch bunch
- meeting with a student in crisis and finding supports for that child

My classroom is currently packed up in about 50 boxes. In a normal year I spent roughly 20-30 hours of time setting up my classroom, and that doesn’t include meetings and planning. Don’t tell me I’m selfish, lazy, stupid, entitled and that I don’t care about my students. Ultimately teachers do what is needed to be done in the best interest of our students. OTOH, I’m a mother first and I’m unwilling to sacrifice any more of my time with them. Maybe you have different priorities.

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- helping with Marking Period 3 material distribution
- emailing every single student with a list of unfinished work that they need to complete before the end of the Marking Period

I think that many folks are forgetting is that every elementary school has at least one new curriculum this year, which means none of the resources they have used in the past for math or ELA can be used this year.  Every though it is a curriculum created by a company, there are no centrally created slides, Nearpods or other interactive resources.  Teachers have to take a curriculum that was designed for in-person instruction and adapt it to a virtual world, which takes time.[/quote]

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