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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]60 hours a week x 38 weeks = 2280 hours per year.

40 hours a week x 52 weeks = 2080 hours per year.

A full time year round employee who works 44 hours a week works the same amount as a teacher.  Most professionals I know work this and then some.  I get the exhaustion that comes from long days with other people's children, but the amount of complaining is really unwarranted.[/quote]

Except most of us also do unpaid work during the summers. For me, it's typically training and writing curriculum, but I'm also expected to attend summer IEP meetings.[/quote]

If you do unpaid work, don't complain about it. It's your choice. I get paid to come in to do summer IEP meetings and so do other teachers.[/quote]

That's so true.[b] I hate when other teachers set the precedent that they will work unpaid.[/b] The ones who go in every summer to work on their rooms for days before preservice starts, attend leadership team meetings without a stipend, run after school clubs unpaid etc. Because so many do it on their own free will, there's no pressure for us to be compensated for doing those things. One year I was asked to be team leader, which is an unpaid position for teachers in my position. I declined due to the fact that I wouldn't be paid for doing the same work and putting in the extra time that 7 other people would be paid for. I told my principal that once it became a paid position for my specialty then I'd be happy to do it. My principal then listed about 6 people who weren't paid but still agreed to serve as team leader. I guess she thought since they chose to work for free that I would too?

What annoys me the most about my fellow teachers is the martyrdom. Always agreeing to take on more even when they're not compensated for it. Yes, it's obviously important "to do it for the kids", but the reality is that it is my job and if I wasn't getting paid for doing it then I wouldn't be there. I've learned that it's really not ok to voice that opinion while working in a school. You'll get looked at like you have three heads. [/quote]

This is why it's so important to have a union![/quote]

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