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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I started twenty years ago, I could get my work done in 40 or 45 hours a week. I had balance.

I work 7 days a week now. It never ends. I’m always grading papers, responding to emails, and revising lessons. If I’m awake, I’m working or thinking about the work that needs to get done.

The demands of the job have grown exponentially.

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How is it you weren’t doing these things 20 years ago as well?  Teaching has always demanded that teachers spend a good 20+ hours a week outside the classroom doing this stuff.  That’s the big problem with teaching. It’s actually two jobs in one.   It’s a flaw with the system.  [/quote]

I’m the poster you are responding to.

Because I had fewer students, no extra duties, and more planning periods. I figure I had an extra 2 hours a work day to get my tasks done. (New teachers were given preferential schedules at my first school, unlike now. We throw them whatever schedules are left because we are so desperate to get classrooms filled.)

Because I had a network of experienced teachers and mentors who helped me plan and streamline my classroom. Now? I’m one of three teachers with experience in my entire department, outnumbered by people in their first two years. We can’t support them all the way I was supported.

I had a better curriculum, one that was logical and purposeful. Now? I have a cruddy one and I spend hours enhancing or completely rewriting the lessons I was handed.

I can go on. [/quote]

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