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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't do it.  Don't.  You'll regret it. 
If you do decide to return, when (when, not if) you have a student who physically assaults you, don't expect your admin to back you up.  Expect 60+ hour work weeks.  Expect a lot of blatant disrespect.  Expect to have students who don't do work and yet you have to pass them anyways.  Expect to spend any and all spare seconds you have in stupid meetings that do nothing to help you or students.  [/quote]

Again- if you are legitimately working 60 hour weeks as a teacher, you are doing something wrong. My best friend is a teacher, and a hard working one, and a bad week for her is 50 hours a week (lots of grading near the end of a quarter and needing to chase down kids and parents and document and also maybe a school concert thrown in). A normal week she does about an hour after the school day ends. [/quote]

So you don’t teach. You know a teacher.

Teaching conditions vary WIDELY based on subject, district, and experience. I have 155 students. I get between 30-45 minutes “off” a day during which I can eat lunch, grade papers, and respond to emails. That’s it.

It takes over 20 hours of my own time a week to get everything done, and that’s a normal week. At the ends of quarters it can grow to 70 hour weeks.

I’m an experienced teacher with tremendous organizational skills. I just have too much dang work to do. [/quote]

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