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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are burned out. I can’t repeat this enough.

High school teachers are in front of 140-150 teenagers each day, dealing with unimaginable behaviors. When their planning period comes, they are now covering classes since we have a shortage of subs. I didn’t even get to eat lunch twice last week.

Planning lessons and grading work doesn’t happen at school anymore. There’s no time. It happens after we cook our family’s dinner. It happens after we put our own kids to bed. It happens all weekend, and sometimes we have to use our own leave to catch up.

It is unfortunate that students have to wait for feedback, or not get any at all. But it is equally unfortunate that we demand that our teachers sacrifice their own families to get work done. [/quote]

There's no excuse for not letting teachers have a lunch period or taking over their planning periods regularly. No excuse. I don't know how MCPS allows this.

But I'm not sure why you are complaning about after hours work. My parents were teachers and they always were grading at home and on weekends. This is not new. This is how salaried jobs work. Everyone I know who has a salaried job does some amount of work after hours and on weekends no matter what that job is. If you don't want to take work home with you you you should choose a different profession.[/quote]

Teachers are taking your advice. We are leaving in droves. MCPS used to be a place teachers flocked to. Now it has a dreadful reputation, and teachers look elsewhere.

Your parents had it easy compared to today’s teachers. I’ve been at this over 20 years. Teaching 2 decades ago was a BREEZE compared to now. And “taking home work” used to mean 1-2 hours of work a night. Now it means 3 or more, as well as full weekends dedicated to work. I pulled a 70 hour week last week.

Yes, working after hours is part of the job. But now we receive NO (and I repeat: NO) real time at work to get planning and grading done. If a task is essential to our job, we should receive some time to complete it. [/quote]

My high school magnet kid has at least three hours of homework a night. I guess teachers should have less and just put all the pressure on the young teens.[/quote]

I’m the PP you’re responding to. I’m curious… how is that your takeaway? All I did was mention that some teachers are working 3+ hours at night, and you suggest we should do less and just pressure our students more. Why would we do that? What did I write that led you to this absurd conclusion?

I know my students are overburdened, as well. I take that into account as I plan. I work HARD, putting more on myself, to make sure my assignments are beneficial. I don’t give busy work. So why would you make a snarky comment suggesting I don’t care about students’ workload or well-being?

Perhaps this was a flippant comment from you. But here’s how it landed: I just put in 14-15 hours of work this weekend. I’m worn out, and Monday is just around the corner. I feel unappreciated and disrespected already, and you just piled more on. And we wonder why strong teachers like me are out the door. [/quote]

My point was that you should be working at least as hard as you expect the kids too. My kid is definitely working more hours than you are. That sucks for her.[/quote]

Really? Your child worked about 14-16 hours this weekend? Because that’s how much time I spent grading. Did you read where I wrote that above?

And does your child wake up at 4am to get about 2 hours of work in each day before the school day starts? And then work again in the evening?

I’m guessing I work FAR, FAR more than any of my students. Your attempt to shame me fell flat. [/quote]

You’re wrong. I’m not trying to shame you, but my child works more than that routinely. Doesn’t work before school but regularly stays up until midnight or later and often works many more hours than 15 over weekends. Five hours a night is fairly average for a weeknight, more at weekends [/quote]

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