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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Normal, I would.  Teachers make all kind of excuses but it’s absurd. [/quote]

150 essays at 15 minutes each takes 37.5 sustained hours of grading. That’s 37.5 extra hours of unpaid work to get done in 10 days.

I don’t call that an excuse. I call it an explanation. And I agree it is absurd. It’s absurd that we consider that workload acceptable. [/quote]

Maybe misunderstanding the contracts teachers have with MCPS but how is that unpaid work? I thought teachers were salaried with job duties which included grading.

The workload does seem unreasonable in either case, but unclear if "unpaid" is correct. [/quote]

It is.  Why wouldn’t it be.  It’s time outside of the contracted hours.   Teachers are paid for the time spent in the building plus one hour outside of their duty day.  Duty day = 7 hours for full time staff plus 1 hour to equal 8 hours total.  Teachers are paid by the hour.  If teachers choose to work summer school, they are paid their hourly rate.   No overtime.  So yes.  It’s unpaid if it goes over 5 hours a week outside of their duty day.  [/quote]

By definition they are salaried becuase they don't get an hourly rate, even though an hourly rate is used to determine their salary. If they were hourly, they would be able to get overtime. They are not.

Same with my job. I'm salaried, so no overtime/comp time, but they use an hourly rate to determine my salary.

-DP[/quote]

That doesn’t mean unlimited hours.  That’s why teachers have a contact.  [/quote]

*contract

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