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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing that could happen to encourage more young people to go into teaching is paying for their degree in full at a state school if they can make it through 2 years of teaching.

To the poster who doesn't believe teachers work 60 hours a week:
7 a.m. -arrive at school, prep items, copy things, respond to emails, work on data
8 a.m. -kids arrive
11:00 a.m. -eat lunch while calling a parent and responding to emails, prep items for after lunch, set up a science demo, meet with a colleague about a student, maybe use the restroom and run to the recess door to pick kids up on time, create a chart for the kid who keeps eating the trash out of the trash can
11:50 a.m.- teach
1:00 p.m. -It's supposed to be prep time, but you have meetings 2/3 days you have prep 
1:50 p.m. -pick kids up
2:30 p.m. -dismiss kids, talk with parents at pick up, clean up the room, meet with the social worker about another kid, check emails, attend meetings, planning, grading, create a new center, etc, etc, etc.
4:30 p.m. -drive home, pick up kids, make dinner, go to gym, etc
7:00 p.m. -more emails, analyze student writing samples, plan both whole group and small group writing instruction (or math or reading or whatever).  Begin writing a grant, or look for a cool 2 minute video to illustrate a science concept or run to target to buy supplies for a project or look for ways to engage a learner who has adhd, etc, etc.
9:00 p.m. Watch TV, go to bed

All that is M-Th.  Fridays, I go out for drinks or am exhausted and go to sleep.

Saturdays, I often go into school for 2 hours because there's no one else there making copies and I get a lot of organizational stuff done.  Sunday afternoons I'll put in a few hours on some of my whole group planning.

When my kids were little, I remember bringing them to a roller skating party.  While they skated, I sat and cut out laminating.  I graded papers at sports practices.  I once wanted to bring stuff to cut out to a water park (indoors, winter) and my husband put his foot down and said absolutely not.

I used to LOVE teaching.  Truly.  I left public education this year and will never go back.  Not because of the hours.  I'm kind of a workaholic and if I love what I'm doing, it's super satisfying to see students thrive because of it.  But I was in a situation where I was truly not safe, and I had to leave.  I'll be in a fancy private school this fall and anticipate working just as hard.  [/quote]

You realise even if you work every minute of lunch, every minute of 2:30-4:30, and all of the 7-9pm window… that still isn’t a 12 hour day, right?

You aren’t making the point you think you are.  I don’t doubt you have worked an 11 hour day, but there is no way you are averaging anywhere close to 11 hours per day, let alone 12.

When I see a time sheet with 12 hours recorded on it I am going to need to know what the person was crashing on, and if you are averaging 12 per day over a year you need to be going over 12 every time you go under.

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I also don’t believe any of this.  Sorry!! What teacher is talking to parents at dismissal? Dismissal is done to the bus, to kiss and ride and for walkers.  Parents are not going to the classroom on a routine basis.

Similarly, I also don’t believe you get that many emails DAILY that need replying to.  [/quote]

We don't have any buses at my school except for a handful of special ed students. Everyone is a walker. We see parents at dismissal nearly every day unless an older sibling picks them up.

I counted the Dojo messages I got one day last week and there were 16 of them. Most days I got between 10-18.[/quote]

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