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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year, I lost my second job because there were 3-4 parents who would pick their kids up late every day. I had to wait with the students until their parents showed up. My after-school job fired me because I was late too often. I've been able to tutor online for the last few months and it has helped with my bills. [/quote]Was this a private school?  If it was a public school I would have walked those kids up to the office and left them there with the Principal.  This was not acceptable that you had to stay.  As soon as your contract hours were over you should have left.[/quote]

No. It was public school. By the time we come back inside from waiting for parents outside, admin is usually gone. Sometimes a counselor or social worker was in the office and would offer to wait with the kids but that was rare. They knew they could be there for a while. But if I left the kids alone, I probably would've lost my job (and I wouldn't do that to them). I was quite tempted to load them in my car and take them to work with me. I would've left a message telling their parents to come pick them up where I worked.[/quote]

You should have taken them back inside and handed them off.  The principal and/or designee has the responsibility to stay, not you the teacher.  They were taking advantage of you and honestly could have (should have) lost their jobs if you had reported them to their supervisor.[/quote]

Not that poster, but at my school, the principal or AP can designate you to watch kids after school under “other duties otherwise undefined”. One AP used to put a boy in my classroom at 3:05 and tell me she would come get him at 3:20 so I could leave. She never came back sooner than 3:40. Once she thrust him in my room not knowing I had scheduled a meeting with a parent who was also a MSEA officer (state level). That parent took it from there and it never happened again. [/quote]

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