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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I’m a Gen-exer too and yes, the financial pressures are much worse for millennial teachers than they ever were for our generation. [/quote]

Maybe, for you.  But, I am a certified Baby Boomer--and, believe me, we had more financial difficulties than the current new grads.

What we did NOT have was all this testing and busy work that is put on teachers today.  But, we also did not have all the teacher work days and not nearly as many holidays.  Summer vacation was longer, however.  No question that there are far more professional pressures on today's teachers.  [b]But, financial--not so much.[/quote][/b]

http://www.epi.org/publication/the-teacher-pay-gap-is-wider-than-ever-teachers-pay-continues-to-fall-further-behind-pay-of-comparable-workers/

I also object to your statement that we have more teacher work days. Yes, we have tons of them but what do you think we are doing during teacher work days? Not doing our own work. Out of the 10 or so we have every year, one of them is mine to do what I need to do in my classroom. One out of 10. The rest of them are non-stop meetings. Most of them are held at other schools not near my own school. I do my own work (lesson planning, grading, etc) in my own time. Even 2 or 3 out of 5 planning periods per week is taken up by meetings. Schools are run more like businesses these days so the testing gives us the constant streams of data. When do we crunch the numbers? During our planning periods. [/quote]

[b]If you are in FCPS[/b] your days should not be filled up with meetings. At least two of the [i]Teacher Workdays[/i] should be used at your discretion.[i] School Planning Days[/i] have 50 percent of the day directed by the school and 50 percent of the day directed by the teachers. Teacher-directed time may include individual planning, collaborative team planning, or attending professional development offered by the school or FCPS departments. Program managers may facilitate any needed coordination for teacher-directed time but [b]may not require specific activities during this time. [/b] Time during [i]Two-Hour Early Release[/i] days is to be used at your discretion. The days before school starts are supposed to provide a balance of teacher planning time with opportunities for staff meetings and professional development. [b]Emphasis is on teacher planning time to prepare for the first weeks of school.[/b]

Your planning time is also protected. For example, if you are an elementary teacher you should have a minimum of 300 planning minutes per week with at least 240 minutes [b]directed by you[/b].  A minimum of 60 minutes are to be utilized for collaborative planning. There is also a limit to the number and length of staff meetings.
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