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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Are you expected to work all day and then do all your paperwork at home, unpaid, on your own time? [b]Because we aren’t actually allowed to do any of this at work. [/b]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]

This.

As I type, I am listening to one of my fifteen required virtual trainings I must complete before school starts (each taking 1-3 hours). Our contract days before school starts are spent doing different in-person trainings. Planning and preparing for the actual teaching part of my job is happening in my "free time."[/quote]

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During winter break this past school year, we received an email the last morning of classes with mandatory training that needed to be completed before the start of classes again on January 3. It consisted of 9 videos - the shortest was 45 mins. and the longest was 2h15m. These aren't simply videos you can throw on in the background while you do something else, either, because you have to interact to get "credit" for the video and also answer questions along the way. It's stupid, pointless training. We don't need more training. We need admins who will support us when we say "this student needs XYZ services ASAP in order to remain in my classroom or they need removed ASAP." Because to be blunt: not all kids are capable of traditional learning. It's a fact. We need less "everyone is special and equal" BS in education right now and we need to go back to accepting that some students are better academically than others. Does it make them a better person? No! But treating all 22 kids in my classroom as if they are on the same level is not working. We're hurting 90-95% of the class to bend over backwards to accommodate 5-10%.

My corporate husband had to answer one 30-minute work call on Xmas eve and his company gave him a bonus day off in his bank for his trouble. He had a coworker slapped by another coworker during a heated fight and the slapper was immediately fired. In teaching, the kid who throws a chair at you will be right back in your classroom the next day to hurl a stapler at your head.    [/quote]

This breaks my heart, but it is consistent with what I hear from teacher friends. I'm so sorry. [/quote]

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