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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the most annoying aspect of being a teacher is this strange culture around paperwork, “professional responsibilities” and all the non student facing elements of the job. There’s always this weird undercurrent of “you’ll be in trouble if...” you get caught without x form, you aren’t taking enough data, your lesson plans aren’t detailed enough, you’re not organizing certain things in a specific and obsessive format, you don’t have your bulletin board rubrics formatted how they’ve directed and updated each week, etc.

I’m an adult, I don’t care if you’re mad at me about a meaningless form? It’s bizarre. It’s all the non-teaching aspects of the job that make me want to leave. I love working with the kids, not plotting data on a graph that no one will ever look at.  [/quote]

Ah yes, I too don't like doing the parts of the job that I am required to do but don't enjoy. I too am a stable person who has thought about quitting my job because I had to do forms.[/quote]
Are you expected to work all day and then do all your paperwork at home, unpaid, on your own time? Because we aren’t actually allowed to do any of this at work. They took away all our administrative time this year so we could stay with our kids in the classroom all day, and we’re not even permitted to check our email. I teach special Ed so this amounts to hours each week. I also have the distinct pleasure of creating and differentiating the entire curriculum myself. The cherry on top is that there is no ventilation system and the kids aren’t required to wear masks due to their special needs. You have no idea what my job entails, weird how you think it’s no different than your own. [/quote]

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