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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and I told my DS that I would not finance his education to become a teacher.  I'm in my 5th year in a inner city school and they keep adding more and more work but cutting our planning time.  I am guaranteed 3 planning period per week of 45 mins.  This week, I had 3 meetings during those planning periods so I got no grading or planning done.  School ended 10 minutes ago and I will be here until at least 6:00 working.  I get here appr. 30 minutes early each day.  I can't get here any earlier b/c my child's before school program opens at 7am.  I am here until 5:30 every day and still have at least an hour of work to do at home every night.  I estimate I work 15-20 hrs each week beyond my contracted hours (more than that at the beginning of the year).  For this, I am paid in the mid $50,000s.  If I could afford to quit, I would.  [/quote]

What were your meetings about? Can teachers use their unions to advocate for less meetings?[/quote]

I teach in an elementary school. My district guarantees at least 300 minutes of planning per week. Of that a minimum of 240 minutes is teacher directed and a minimum of 60 is to be used for team planning (PLC/CLT). I can choose to meet during some of my 240, but I don't have to do so.[/quote]

300 minutes?  Wow!  Where is this shangri la?[/quote]

I'm in an FCPS middle school, and I get 450 minutes a week without kids (90 minutes per day). That said, 2 blocks (180 minutes) are CT, and 60 minutes per week are lunch duty. Still, I supposedly have 210 minutes of planning each week.[/quote]

Is your lunch duty separate from your own lunch time? Just asking because you are supposed to have a duty free lunch.[/quote]

Yes, lunch duty is part of my planning period. I do have a 30 minute lunch, though core teachers have been requested to help kids with makeup work or tutoring during lunch until late bus s start in a couple weeks.[/quote]

"Requested". So you can decline.[/quote]

Of course. Generally the time spent tutoring is less than the time spent justifying not doing it to admin, explaining to parents that you aren't available for help, and energy spent catching kids up during class, so most of us just do it. It is not in our contract though.
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