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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get that teachers need more time, but why does that mean a school holiday for kids. If you are salary that often means you will work extended hours on occasion as required. If I am in meetings for 8 hours (happens often) and I have to meet a deadline, that means I am working late that day. An occasional TWD quarterly is fine but we shouldn't get jerking around with lesson plans requiring a day off.

If teachers need training, that should happen during the summer. [/quote]

“Extended hours on occasion” is everyday from Aug to June for teachers[/quote]

This. I find parents so far removed on how many extra hours teachers work daily/weekly. Now if the county took things off teacher’s plates, that would help immensely. But we do more than just plan, teach and grade. [/quote]

I have begun to set limits, but my previous weekday schedule usually looked something like this:

-- 5am-6:30am-- work, then feed baby until nanny arrived at 7am
-- 7:30 am-4:30pm--work at school
--5:00pm- 7:00pm-- feed baby, play with baby, eat dinner, bathe baby, put baby down
-- 7:30pm- 9:30pm or 10pm-- work from home

Each day was a minimum of 12.5 hours of work.  On the weekends, I would usually put in at least 5-6 hours of work each day while my daughter was napping or playing independently.

There was little time for me to spend with my husband, and definitely no time for me to take care of myself through exercise, meditation, reading, drawing, or other leisure activities.

Now, I have cut back to 10-hour days, plus no more than 5 hours total on the weekends. If we did not have school planning days, it would not be feasible for me to only work 50-55 hours/week.

I know some people work more than 50-55 hours per week, but we need to stop doing that. It is not something about which to brag when your mental and physical health are suffering because of your martyrdom. We all need to set boundaries. [/quote]

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