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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this video is an important reminder for parents and administrators

[url]https://fb.watch/hcxdi1BUVj/?mibextid=0LFGlp[/url][/quote]

Largely because people in the private sector work far more hours.[/quote]

The "extra hours for free" and "unpaid overtime" comments make me roll my eyes.  Do teachers realize that other professionals are classified as "exempt" and do not get paid overtime?  "Overtime" is a concept for non-exempt employees.

Oh, and summers?  MCPS pays teachers for spending time on workshops, etc.  Is that not "overtime"?[/quote]

Back to add, and union protection?  Other professionals do not have this.[/quote]

[b]That's because they don't need it. [/b]Only people with crappy jobs need unions.[/quote]

You are really over the top.  You really have no idea how other salaried professionals live and work.[/quote]

I bet you have toilet paper and functioning bathrooms and soap. I bet you don’t have rodent and insect infestations in your workplace. I bet you have heating and a/c that works. [/quote]

This is so unproductive. This is what we are trying to tell you. You think I've never worked in a crappy facility? Think again. I've worked a bunch of places with pest problems -- show up to the office and their are mouse droppings in the hallways, find cockroaches in kitchen cabinets. My DH has worked in a government building that hasn't had well functioning AC for over a decade -- he regularly shows up to work in mid-July to find out that the AC is off (and the windows don't open). I once worked in a office where our bathroom was out of service for almost 8 months, so when you had to go to the bathroom you had to take the stairs or elevator to an office at least 3 floors away, request a temporary access card from their reception. Just to pee. For more than half a year.

But this should not be a competition. That's the point. This thread was posed as "why does no one acknowledge how overworked [/underappreciated] teachers are?" And what we are trying to tell you is that (1) we know, and (2) so are many of us.

Look for solidarity. Stop trying to score points or win the Suffering Olympics. Teaching is a hard job that most of us appreciate because we are parents and we need teachers. Most of us spend a lot more time appreciating the teachers in our lives than our own workplaces spend appreciating us. Which is fine, honestly! But it's exhausting to be told again and again, "You don't understand how hard this is, you don't appreciate us, etc. etc." We get it. If you want something concrete (higher pay, better facilities, more competent administration) just tell me what it is and how I can help support getting that. Or designate union reps to do it, whatever, I know you're busy. But I feel like I hear a lot more "y'all don't appreciate us" than "here are specific ways in which teaching could be made better."

We all like complaining about our jobs, and most of us are justified in doing so. But I don't start threads that are like "why don't teachers acknowledge how overworked and under appreciated I am in my job?" It's combative, it's not true, and it's frankly beside the point.[/quote]

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