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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Problem is there is also zero instruction on these days. Teachers can stay after school for an hour to plan for the next day. I see teachers in and out the same 7 hours the kids are in school. Add 30m for lunch and you have 1.5hrs every day to plan. That’s 7.5hrs a week.[/quote]

I take home over 3 hours of work A NIGHT. When you see me leave shortly after the students, that’s so I can pick up my own child and take her to therapy. I work while she’s there. I then go home, make dinner, and work an extra 2-3 hours. This is 5 days a week. I then work a full day on Saturdays.

So just because I’m leaving doesn’t mean I’m not working. You’re getting PLENTY of hours out of me, more than my own children get.

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Are you an elementary school teacher? I'm really curious about what it is that you're doing during this time at home - 3 hrs a night and all day Saturday? I'm not being mean or rude here, I truly want to know.[/quote]

Are you serious or are you a troll?  I’m a different elementary teacher and have to put in lots of extra hours to prepare all the lessons for my classes.  I work on things in the evenings and on weekends (and sometimes early mornings) because there is no time during the school day as I am teaching a roomful of kids with a variety of needs.  It takes a lot of time, energy, creativity, stamina, and patience to be a teacher.
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DP.

I try to explain that 50% of my job is teaching and 50% is the background work (preparing, communicating, grading, etc.). My hours at work get me through the first 50%, but I have to use my time at home to do most of the 2nd. This is due to the fact teachers aren’t given enough work time to pull off the miracles we have to pull off in the classroom.  [/quote]

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