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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a first year middle school English teacher making around $50k a year. I do leave within 30 minutes of the end of school, but I take a bag of grading home with me and I'll generally spend at least an additional hour or two planning or catching up on emails. I have around 90 students and give detailed feedback to their writing assignments, but even the boring grammar worksheets take time to grade.

My school has a block schedule with 75 minute classes and I teach the same 3 blocks everyday with one block for planning. 4 of the 5 days a week, my planning is taken up by meetings.

I don't think non-teachers understand what we mean by planning and what exactly about it takes so long. My school provides me with a textbook, the state gives me the Standards of Learning that I need to teach, but it is up to me to figure out what I'm do every day. I make most of the resources that I use: worksheets, cloze note pages, PowerPoints, quizzes, tests, example paragraphs to show a skill we're learning, etc. Everything that the kids interact with, I generally have created myself, outside of my work hours.

If I only worked from 7:40-3:20, my contracted hours, my students would start on page 1 of the textbook the first day of school and work their way through it. Life would be great for me, but then I'd hear complaints from parents and administration.[/quote]

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