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[quote=Anonymous]First year teacher here and I am exhausted!  I count down the days until our next day off or the weekend.  I teach 5 different grade levels which means 5 different lesson plans per day.  I don't have a planning period everyday either so I come in 45 mins before we are expected to arrive and stay until 5pm or so.  I also do some work on the weekends for my grad class (even though I already have a grad degree, I still need to accumulate so many credits for my district to approve my pay raise).  It might be a bit easier if I didn't have kids and were fresh out of college but I am old (according to my kids).  Yes, I do get the summer off but I really should work in the summer b/c as a single mom, I may not be able to make ends meet w/o a paycheck for 10 weeks.  It is inflexible during the school year.  I saw that my kid's school called yesterday and I started to panic b/c I didn't know what I would do if I had to pick him up.  I would have to find a sub and wait for them to show up and write down some quick plans.  Luckily my DD was fine but being in school is like stepping into another universe.  The outside world doesn't exist while you are there.  It is a lot of work to get here (it took my years to find a FT teaching job) and the pay just isn't enough in the DC area.[/quote]

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