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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:30, I am a teacher and I also get frustrated with posters/teachers who complain that they have to take work home without overtime pay and out of the other side of their mouths complain that they aren't treated as professionals.  Teachers are professionals.  It's a career, not a job.  As much as I wish it weren't so, being a professional with a career means working outside of your prescribed work hours.  Am I frustrated and disappointed that we haven't gotten step increases for two years or COLAs for three?  Of course.  But, while we're on the topic, I'm also frustrated that our pay scale is based only on how long you've been teaching.  There are second year teachers and thirty year veterans who are remarkable at what they do.  There are also thirty year veterans who have been teaching the same exact way for thirty years without any improvement to their performance.  Why do they make twice as much money as I do?[/quote]

Don't you understand that you are the cause of the county taking you for granted?  Teachers are the most docile group that I have ever met.  They are afraid to speak up in almost every matter.  The thinking in most schools that if they are seen or heard protesting that they will not be viewed as team players.

Stop giving them your valuable off-duty hours.  Its your life.  Enjoy it.  DON'T grade papers at home. [/quote]

I think you are doing us more of a disservice with your lack of professionalism.  I do enjoy my life.  I don't work 14 hours a day, I just don't complain when occasionally, as a professional, I need to take a bit of work home.  I have no problem speaking up when necessary but again, I view myself as a career educator, a professional, not someone who clocks in at a specific time and clocks out at the end of the day like a grocery store clerk.  Not that there is anything wrong with a strictly 8-hour a day job, but I think it diminishes our profession to "demand" to be treated that way, as you seem to be doing.[/quote]

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