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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we paying them?  Because just like most of us here on DCUM, they are salaried.  They are not hourly workers that are paid only for the hours they work.  If they were, many of them would get overtime pay at time and a half for the hours that they spend in the evenings grading papers and exams, weekends, creating worksheets, lesson plans and labs.  We would be paying them extra when they meet parents after school or tutor kids after school or when band and orchestra teachers conduct a concert in the evenings or teachers who run clubs after school mentor their kids through extracurricular activities.  As it is, we already pay them a salary that is prorated from the 10 months of actual school and spread their salary out to 12 months.  Teachers make far below what they should make based on the average amount of education necessary to attain teaching credentials compared to the average amount of education necessary for a ton of other jobs out there.

The fact that they are salaried means they get the same salary whether they work 60 hours in a week or 0 hours in a week.  And right now, most teachers are working some portion of time to prepare for distance learning.  Some are working more than others.  I have a friend who has a special needs 4th grader whose teacher has been working with him to give him specialized tutoring.  She zooms with him for an hour in the morning to give him some lessons and some work and she zooms with him in the afternoon 30 minutes+ to review what he did during the day, go over answers and help him understand if he missed any.  And he is not the only teacher that is working with students.  I also know a few others who were in the first wave of teachers to learn the new tech and then are conducting zoom sessions with their coworkers to teach them how to use the new tech.  And unfortunately the new tech is not as easy to use as Zoom which is not allowed by MD state because there is no allowance for closed captioning and other ADA required aids for students with special needs.  I also know several teachers who have been helping school administrators with the acquisition of chromebooks and the distribution of chromebooks to the students to ensure that even those without tech at home and our poorest FARMS students all have the technology that they need to get on-line for the distance learning when it starts.  And I was called yesterday by a teacher who was helping the administration call those people who had not filled out the technology questionaire.  I filled the googledocs page that came out the day it came out (we're in HCPSS) and apparently many of the Googledocs replies were lost and so many of us who followed the instructions the first few days had to be called.  And teachers were helping out with calling because the admins were really busy with other work to get things going.

I'm not a teacher, but I have a lot of profound respect for the teachers.  And even if they are at home not working, I know that in about 3 weeks when they start, they will be working very hard...again.[/quote]

Technically, the substitutes and longterm substitutes are hourly. How are they being paid here?[/quote]

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