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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you explain what you don’t like about your current job?  Not sure what you are hoping to change. [/quote]

I guess the things I don't like add up to feeling almost inhuman:

-not being able to go to the bathroom for hours (because you can't leave kids alone and there isn't a second adult)

-being massively underpaid-- I calculated by hours worked and if I break it down by hour, Starbucks and other wage workers make more than I do.

-being disrespected by students, parents, admin. Of course some are lovely, but the bad apples are... bad.

-having to skip meals or choke down a granola bar in the bathroom because of being pulled into subbing and having no lunch time. The reason for eating in the bathroom is because I don't think we are supposed to eat in front of students / in the classroom.

I guess I'd like to be able to drink water and go to the bathroom. And maybe make a little more than what amounts to about $17/hour. Summers off are nice, but I often end up working or doing classes so I don't actually take summer break.[/quote]

Are you making less than $40k? If you work 55 hours a week (I’m usually in the 50-55 hour range) for the entire school year and average it out to $17/hour, it would be about $36,500 a year.

ES Teacher[/quote]

Kids are in school 6.5 hours a day, 32.5 hrs/ week. Elementary students don’t have much (or any in most DMV districts) homework.

What in the world are you doing the other 20 hrs of the week? Sure, your first year teaching planning maybe daunting, but once you have a curriculum you just tweak from year to year (parents were teachers)[/quote]

I figure 8-4:00 in the building (half hour before and after students) so that’s 40 hours. I then figure ~2 hours each night Sunday through Thursday making sure I have my ducks in a row for the next day. (What are we doing for our Morning Meeting greeting, share, activity and message, what sense making activity for math, which lesson with the phonics group, which lesson with the phonological awareness group, which math stations, who to meet with during the intervention block, etc?). That’s another 10 right there. Combine or add some more time for checking student work, putting together weekly email updates, etc.

This is my 30th year. I didn’t used to put in as many hours, but I didn’t have as much to plan for and I had fewer meetings during the school day. I used to be able to leave school planned and ready for the next day[/quote]

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