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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]It could be a specials teacher who has been stretched extremely thin this year[/b]. They get pulled in to provide extra support for regular classrooms for DL and that eats up all of their planning time. They basically have two jobs in our school this year. Regular specials material plus classroom aide.

Or a MS/HS teacher. I’ve been blown away by the quality of the teaching and richness of material. They are busting their butts and it shows. 
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LMAO! A specials teacher working 75 hours a week!?!? My dc PE teacher only plays youtube videos. Her music teacher plays Little Einstein videos. [/quote]

Our PE teachers put together many of their own videos - compiled from what kids send in. They must do this on their own time because they are either running their own class or being an aide to classroom teachers all day long.

I was specifically thinking of the science teacher though who has gone above & beyond in science work this year. It’s clear from the materials that she puts together than she spends a lot of time preparing.

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A science teacher? Your dc have a science special? in FCPS? My dc have art, PE, music, guidance, and library. The librarian plays youtube videos of other people reading books. The PE teacher plays youtube videos--not original videos, just random stuff. We haven't seen his face except for the first week of school. Music I don't know b/c my dc skips that one, it was pretty terrible the first two weeks. [/quote]

This is VA public school forum. Not FCPS forum. 
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