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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the teacher that has three hours of planning time per week, you are lucky. In our school, we are pulled from our planning time to go cover other classrooms where teachers is out, no sub is available[/quote]

I’m in an elementary school and we’ve been pretty much covered this SY. I think teachers in HS get pulled more often for coverage.[/quote]

I am at a MCPS elementary school and our ESL teachers get pulled to cover at least 2-3 days a week for absent teachers. Paras (including those hired as Spec Ed paras) get pulled to sub for grade level teachers every single day. Admin is not approving personal leave days, so many people end up calling out sick if they had a doctors appointment, which obviously results in increased staffing shortages. We can’t get subs (mini behavior issues at our school) and admin, staff devl teacher and reading specialist have yet to cover a single class this year. Every year the behaviors become more and more challenging with additional to do items added to our daily responsibilities but this year‘s pace has become unsustainable. Many of us have burned out and it is only December. If they increased the salary for teachers, it would be possible to occasionally outsource things like cleaning or food delivery, which would allow us to spend quality time with our own children in the evenings. As it is, I feel my students get the best, most positive, caring, energetic, etc. version of me and I am completely drained by the time I get home. I consider myself to be an extremely dedicated teacher but I am looking into changing careers.
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