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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any teacher who works 75 hour weeks is stupid. I say this as a teacher. You get paid for 40. Working 35 extra for free is pointless. You are burning yourself out for what? That is your family’s time. That is your time for yourself. It is not time you owe your employer. And it’s exactly why teacher salaries are what they are. Why would they pay any of us more when half of yall will martyr yourselves for free? [/quote]

There are so many possible responses to this statement. When I was a first year teacher I put in a lot of extra hours, to ensure that I was comfortable with the material and the lesson that I planned. I've also put in extra hours every time I changed a subject/grade. But once you're comfortable and you've been in the same content area/grade for a while you find efficiencies and you're able to use your time more wisely.[/quote]

It is a SHAM that districts do not actually give first year teachers materials and resources so they can teach without having to do this. Why do so many first year teachers suck? Because they are given nothing and expected to work 80 hour weeks to figure it out. I don’t do free labor anymore. I’m an excellent  teacher but schools will take and take and take and manipulate you into thinking it’s “for the kids.” Nope. [/quote]

The irony is many of these teacher critics are likely federal workers who are notorious clock watchers that won't lift a finger outside of regular hours.[/quote]

But here’s the thing, we NEED to normalize that. Our employers do not care about us. They don’t! We are all replaceable to our jobs. Teachers, federal workers, all of us. If our contract pays us for X hours, we aren’t more dedicated or more devoted or better for working more. We are actually just chumps. Other countries have fair maternity and paternity leave, extended vacation time, unlimited sick days and we in the US have tricked ourselves into thinking working beyond paid hours and through sickness and on weekends and never taking vacation or sick days is a badge of honor. It isn’t . It’s dumb [/quote]

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