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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in K classroom for almost a year. The assistant is with the kids from from 8:45 to 3:15 having arrived at 8. There is a 30-minute lunch break which is more like 20 min because kids need help getting dressed heading to recess.
Assistants had recess duty or lunch duty for assistant 5 days a week. Teacher had three duty days. There are several specials during the day so only morning meeting, math, reading, writing, and choice time is done by teacher. Total on 4 hours I'd say. The morning meeting is same thing over and over again. It is so painful.
Math is such a waste of time while reading and writing is being pushed like nothing else.
Taking a plunger to the toilet is no big deal; I wouldn't even mention it.
The biggest problem I saw/heard was the friction between teachers. I have no idea how one class had zero kids with special needs while
the other 3 classes had multiple. Chances of this happening while picking the kids are very slim. Ofcourse the teacher with no special needs kids scored the best. The pay difference was also like $30k while both had experience and MA trying to do the same exact job.
I'd be worried about the pay for assistants. All had at least BA. On paper they got paid $39k while take home was $1020 every two weeks. I have no idea what the benefits were as nobody benefited.
The hardest part in that school was the atmosphere. Parents would never know it. 
About the teachers pay? I don't really care but they should consider education more than experience. " Highly effective" yet again while you have no special kids in class. Pushkin can do that.

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Please send Pushkin on over to the classroom across the hall which has not had a permanent teacher since October.

There’s an element of supply and demand. We need more teachers and there aren’t enough of them. Just like the private sector, you raise salaries to be competitive. [/quote]

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