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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster - I can't get over the "70 hours" comment. There is 0 way you on average spend 70 hours throughout the school year and if you do, well you need to find a better way to do your job. One random "70 hour" week maybe? but probably very inflated. Might have gotten away with 55-60, but come on.[/quote]

It’s been explained multiple times, what don’t you understand?[/quote]

Because some don’t want to understand and they don’t have any frame of reference anyway. The math has been all over DCUM. At this point, it’s no use.

Posters don’t understand that grading and planning can’t get done AT work because teachers are busy with students. It’s a different type of job, one that doesn’t provide the luxury of sitting at a desk getting work done. But if you’ve never experienced that, perhaps it’s hard to imagine.[/quote]

And some of us have friends or family that are or were teachers and know that 70 hours a week is absurd hyperbole[/quote]

Okay. I can’t believe I’m trying again:

150 essays at 15 minutes each: 37.5 SUSTAINED hours of grading (that means without breaks, like sleeping or checking DCUM). They need to get back in 10 days, so that’s an extra 3.75 hours of work for 10 days straight for that assignment ALONE. That doesn’t include other assignments, emails, meetings, “other duties as assigned,” data collection and analysis, tutoring… most of which has to be done off hours. Because the work day is spent with the students. [/quote]

My kid is a Sophomore and hasn't written more than 7 essays their entire FCPS career.  I think the hyperboles need to stop.  Teachers do a lot but let's not get carried away they have a great work life balance. [/quote]

I’ll remember my great work/life balance when I’m up at 4am tomorrow grading. I’ll remember it when I’m grading papers throughout the day on Saturday as my family goes to the beach to give me privacy. I’ll remember it when I am writing college recommendation letters  Sunday so dozens of students don’t have to panic about upcoming deadlines.

It must be true because a DCUM poster told me so. She knows my job and my responsibilities more than I ever will. [/quote]

I wish my job only required me to work 195 days a year. I’d even take a pay cut to have it be so. But alas I am expected to be there throughout the year and yes many a night I’m up until 1 to 2 am putting in “unpaid” extra hours, and sometimes even weekends, This is necessary so that I can eat, spend time with and and make dinner for my family.

When I was younger and paid much less, with 2 weeks vacation, plus 8 holidays off a year. I ran the numbers and realized that hour for hour I’d make much more money teaching, with summers off, shorter work days, and school breaks. Now throw in pensions, no work travel, heath care that was much cheaper comparatively and I was looking at a total boondoggle.

After thought and investigation I realized teaching wouldn’t be best for my introverted personality.

I laugh whenever I hear teachers grumble about the money. How much exactly to you expect to be paid for as you stated a 195 day a year contract job, especially when only 180 of those day are spent in the actual classroom teaching. 
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I would imagine that career switchers are the only ones who know what it's like being a professional in other jobs.[/quote]

DP. I’m a career changer. I work more in my 195 days as a teacher than I did as a 12 month employee at my former corporate job.

I worked 45 hours a week there. I’m over 65 a week now. The way I see it, I do 12 months of work in 10. [/quote]

LOL, also a career switcher. Oh the peace of my cubicle or office depending on the year. I can recall having endless time to chat with co-workers, disappear for lunch, etc. I had busy days but nothing, NOTHING, like teaching. [/quote]

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