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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be the voice of dissent here. 
A boyfriend that I lived with for 2 years was a teacher.
He never ever brought work home unless he "goofed off" during a planning period, he had 2, in addition to lunch.
He did all his grading during those times, he said lunch hour was more for socializating and he wasn't interested.
It was his 5th year teaching the same grade, and he had perfected his curriculum the first couple years and continues to follow that with some tweaking.
He was home by 4 pm every day.
It was eye opening to say the least![/quote]

Pp here. I forgot to add he was awarded "teacher of the year" 2 years in a row. He did go to the library once a month on Saturday morning for kids that needed extra help. [/quote] Great! He's an exception. There are always exceptions. Thanks for sharing your experience. [/quote]

Or are those teachers just not showing up on this thread to defend themselves?

He taught next to an older female teacher who took every other Friday off for the entire year and wore sweatpants to work. We used to make bets if she would show up and we figured out the pattern. It's like the floodgates have opened and I am remembering all this stuff.

He also had paid continuing Ed that he would take the day off and have a sub to go to a conference or something. It didn't count against his actual sick or vacation days.[/quote]

As I posted earlier, it is easy to be a lazy teacher.

Whether you will be continued to be employed by the school district depends on whether they care about you being a lazy teacher.   Frankly, male teachers often get more of a pass because people assume they are a good influence on the children.

I have been called in to IEP meeting where the classroom teacher was completely unprepared for the meeting and didn't even know the child had an IEP, had been making no accommodations, had little data on the child.   No consequences for the teacher!   If you are in a school like that, it is easy to be a teacher, no doubt.

I have also worked in schools where principals require lesson plans be turned in weekly and scrutinize them to be sure you are on the right topic and are planning 3 separate instructional groups for your above, on and below grade level math and reading groups.   (The three ring circus).   That's a harder job for sure.

To the comments about 11 weeks off in summer-- this year it was 9 weeks -- it was UNPAID.  That is a break.  But it is UNPAID.

[b]If teaching is such a great and easy job why aren't more people clamoring for the position?[/b][/quote] No one can seem to answer that question. But they all want to be administrators and tell you have to do your job with no experience or idea what is required of the job. Want to know why the education system is messed up. Not because of teachers but because of administrators and know it all politicians who want to tell teachers how to teacher. [/quote]

Actually, I have worked for administrators with a lot of classroom teaching experience who were totally awesome leaders.  A good principal/AP can make a teacher’s job so much “easier.”  
It sounds like you have not had this experience.  [/quote] Obviously I am not talking about them. [/quote]

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