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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think its weird that there are "contract times". Its a professional job. Professionals should be trusted to show up on time to do their job and to leave at an appropriate time after work. They don't need to be micromanaged like this.[/quote]

Most principals are fine with teachers who arrive super early leaving soon after school. For example, I used to work at a middle school that was under renovation. While school didn't begin until 7:30, and my contract didn't begin until 7:10, I was able to arrive as early as 5:30 because the construction workers were already there. I used to leave shortly after the students left, though, because that's what worked best for my family's needs. The principal didn't care because I got my job done.[/quote]

I've always done this too.  Some days I had to leave 5 minutes after the kids but i'd take stacks of papers home to grade at my dining room table or in the bleachers at my kids' practice or whatever.  I'm a team lead so I'd make agendas and pace out calendars and send meeting invites from my laptop at home.

It won't work this year though. Now, if we leave before the official end of contract hours we have to use leave, no matter when we got to work or how much we put in outside of contract hours.  That's what frustrates me. I work way more than 7.5 contract hours a day (it's impossible to do this job properly without doing so); so as long as I am at school when the kids are at school and I get my job done, let me do my extra hours at a time that works for me. I have never complained that some weeks are way way way more than 40 hours, that's just the job. But the micromanaging is insulting.

I now have CT 2x per week after school for 30 minutes because I teach multiple preps and they couldn't make us all have meetings during the same block because an administrator has to be present at every one of our meetings to write a summary of what we discussed. Before we could meet whenever worked for us as a team as long as we submitted meeting notes to admin after the fact.

I've lost half my planning this year to "bathroom duty", "cafeteria duty", and "hallway duty" on a rotating basis. I used to have an even and an odd period without kids that were to be used for meetings and planning and grading.  This year, we all only have 1. The other is for "school duties".  Admin used to do these tasks, but this year they have been told by the county that middle and high school teachers need to take them on instead. It really, really feels like what I thought I was hired to do and what I know how to do well (teach my subject and form relationships with kids) is no longer the priority.

Either I'm a professional, or I'm not. Right now I'm very much feeling treated as if I'm not.

And it sucks because if all the "work to contract" people actually do it, the kids are the ones who will suffer with no graded work, no lesson plans, etc.[/quote]

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