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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course, OP.  Lots of people work even more hours for a lot less pay.  Really, what is your point?[/quote]

No point.  Just wondering who else works like this. [/quote]

Every teacher.[/quote]

I don’t!  Seven hour days and nothing on weekends!  [/quote]

Same here and HS math.  There may be a couple of weekend a year where I’m behind and spend a few hours grading but that’s rare now.

[b]It’s personality.  Some in my department stay until 6 every day and come in on the weekend and then complain about how much they work.  They don’t use their time effectively and create a lot of busy work. [/b] [/quote]

This is partially true. But I was a HS history teacher who had my students do a lot of writing assignments. Those took a lot longer to grade so therefore I spent a lot more time grading than math teachers would. But it’s also how long you’ve been teaching (if you’ve been doing it a long time and already have all your lesson plans written and resources created and just reuse the same ones every year, you’re not putting in as much time as a newer teacher who’s still having to come up w a plan for each day/week/unit of study) and it depends on what students you have (having lots of kids w behavior issues or who have learning disorders or IEPs or speak English as a second language can make the job more challenging and make you spend more time coming up w lessons that benefit all your students, staying after to tutor struggling learners, etc etc) so it’s not all about efficient time management. Maybe your teaching job is easier than other teachers’ jobs and you don’t realize it.

When I taught I worked about 60 hours a week. I could’ve done more like 40 technically but I wouldn’t have been as effective a teacher if I had done that.

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