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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll add that teachers who claim to work many more hours a day are stretching the truth or just not very good at their jobs/time management. 
I’ve worked with lots of martyr types and you all multiply the time spent working. I do great work and my students are well supported. However, I also know that I have a sweet gig & that I’m free to leave whenever I want.
Get back to me when you make north of $100,000 for the amount of hours & leave that we get. You aren’t stuck in edu. If you can find a better job, take it! [/quote]
That’s a huge generalization. I teach self contained special ed so I have tons of paperwork (data and progress monitoring, functional behavioral analyses/behavior improvement plans, etc). Every single one of my students has an IEP. The hyper specific way that they must be written means that they each take hours. They change the format every year so once you get “good” at it it shifts again. My students don’t write or read in traditional ways and I have to differentiate every assignment on three levels. I’m not talking larger lines for writing, I mean symbolated texts, pictures to cut and paste, errorless learning, etc. I have never in my career been able to link to an article or post textbook pages and asked kids to write a response. I love creating accessible resources for my class. It takes an incredibly long time, though.

Just because your job is not time consuming doesn’t mean no one else’s is. I’m not a martyr, but it would be unconscionable for me to give my students materials that weren’t adapted or to show up at an IEP meeting unprepared. [/quote]

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