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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it's not. Teachers are exempted professional employees under FLSA (i.e., they're salaried).  Certain terms of their employment are governed by a collective bargaining agreement (aka, a contract), but they are not contracted employees.[/quote]
Sure. Let's go with that. Teachers are salaried and working under the terms of a contract, one which specifies duty days and hours. And, of course, teachers still work hour upon hour on their own time as it is, without MCPS requiring more of them.

FWIW, I'm a part time sp ed para these days (so an hourly employee). I've been salaried most of my professional life, supervising both salaried and hourly employees, but never any under a collective bargaining agreement. I've always tried to recognize the need for my employees to have a fairly predictable schedule within reasonable guidelines.

The amount of prep time teachers need for distance learning is absurd. It's akin to preparing material and delivering a fresh presentation for every class. Over and over and over again. With no previous material to repurpose. It's all new! And if you're doing any differentiation for kids with accommodations or needs within a class, multiple versions of it. As it is for many people in the covid era, it's exhausting!

Perhaps some are, but the vast majority of teachers aren't in it for the pajamas, basements, and pedicures.   :wink: [/quote]

Can we stop with the ole “teachers work more hours than on the screen or in school”

Great - so does almost every job in the world. But those people START with 40 hours 5x a week all year round.  And then they work more on top of that. You are in school or online 6 hours a day and that doesn’t include your 1.5 hour break and other periods you may not have a class. So even if you work all 6 hours, even on Wed too, that is still only 30 hours. And since most jobs do not pay for lunch, technically only 25 hours. So if you work 10-15 hours more during the week, you are JUST hitting the normal hours a person gets paid for FT. If you work 20 hours more, that is still not reaching the average 48 hours a week Americans work. AND the average American doesn’t have week breaks, summers off, and at least two 4 day weeks a month.

So can we please stop with the poor teachers work so many hours. No one is saying you don’t work hard. It just isn’t 50-60 hours a week hard all year, like most Americans. [/quote]

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