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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They hired him as a hybrid position (singular) of maintenance/counselor. They are trying to have him work maintenance 7:30-4 and then 5-10:30 as a counselor (presumably relieving the fulltime counselors). Yeah. Not cool. [/quote]

Those are the exact working hours I had when I taught at a boarding school.  I was so exhausted that I spent my days off in bed all day.  It is not sustainable and I will never understand why anyone thinks it is safe or healthy to have people caring for children stretched like this.  Your son will be exhausted, and if something happens to one of the kids, he will feel terrible.  Not safe, not fair, and not something that is going to be ultimately fulfilling for him.  Have him quit and learn that his time is valuable now.  [/quote]

What boarding school was that?  Both of my kids went to boarding schools and that was definitely not the case there.  They graduated last year and four years ago.  Both went to one of the HADES.[/quote]

The school is in the UK.

I wouldn't be so sure it wasn't the same at your kids' schools.  I was a full time teacher with "house tutor" duties, which meant being in the boarding house from 5-11 pm to do rounds and regular check-offs, offer tutoring, make sure study hall was enforced, bed check, as well as actual tutoring and talking/spending time with kids.  It was intense.  Really intense.  And really exploitive.  There were teachers at the school who had worked at Choate and Andover, and one of them was also on the same schedule and the same boarding house; neither of them indicated that our schedule was in any way unusual.[/quote]

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