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Another person who agrees that the original poster was over the top about teaching.  I teach in high school and am able to get all my planning done at school and most of my grading as well.  I also have more than 500 hours of sick leave saved - I have been teaching for 14 years in FCPS. The summers ofF are great and I don't have to put my kids in camp.  That said, I do think there are elements to teaching that are not family friendly.  I can rarely attend events at my kids' school because I am teaching and cannot just leave for an hour to attend a party, volunteer, etc.  When my kids are sick, I have to provide sub plans which is not fun when kids (or I) get sick in the middle of the night.  This happened last week and I was writing sub plans at 11 pm after getting sick.  It is difficult to schedule dr's appts for my kids because I cannot go into work late or run out during the day.  Also there are days where I am very emotionally spent when I get home and have little patience for my own kids because I have been dealing with my students all day.  So there are good things about teaching and difficult things. [/quote]

THINK :
Think Social Studies or English class with 20-25 kids in each class- 5 classes a day. Also consider they are all not the same classes- same curriculum, same level...meaning 3 or more preparations. Think IEP and 504 differentiation for kids WITHIN these classes..think collaborative planning during PLANNING TIME with Spec ed teachers, speech therapists. team teachers- each 3 days a week. That's paperwork for at least a 100 a day. That teacher is not able to sit at her desk grading papers for the only 50 minutes she has per day. Seriously- are all of you teaching small classes and teaching the same curricula for each class each day with no legal/Spec Ed responsibilities? How about the IEP follow ups and meetings? The data tracking for Danielson, the collaborative planning  notes between team teachers?  Some of you might be private school teachers, correct, or not in a district around here?[/quote]

Pp here.  Yes, I will think.  I have been teaching in FCPS for 14 years and I have never heard of Danielson.  We do collect data and it can be time consuming, but we also have people in the school who analyze it for us.  Also, all high schools in FCPS are on block scheduling so we have 3 90 minutes classes per day.  I also don't collect papers from every class every day to grade.  There is absolutely no need to do that to accurately assess student progress.  We have collaboration each week for an hour and may collaborate with other teachers occasionally, but it is not every day and it is not overwhelming.  If there are special ed students in the class, there is usually a special ed teacher in the class or those classes are self-contained.  Yes I have 3 preps, but I have also been teaching long enough that I can build on what I have done in the past.  All that said, some people are not cut out for teaching - it can be overwhelming if you are disorganized and easily overwhelmed.
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