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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they decide that schools should be year round or longer days or whatever plan they come up with, many of the aspects of teaching that I find attractive would be gone. I would leave the field. Being around kids all day is exhausting. I already wake up at 5am and leave my house by 6 every day for my teaching job. If I’m getting out at 6pm then my day has become unmanageable and I have no time to plan or to live my own life. The quality of instruction would go way down.

One of the reasons I became a teacher and not a lawyer or a doctor is that I want to be home to make dinner. I want to go to yoga in the evenings. I want to play with my kids in the summer time. People choose certain career paths for money and certain career paths for other reasons. Everyone doesn’t have to run themselves into the ground just because you choose to do so to make $200,000 a year. I’m happy to live a simpler life so I can actually enjoy my time. [/quote]

I’m also a teacher. I wouldn’t mind the longer days as I think they are envisioned, which is supposed to be longer blocks of the 4 core subjects, but the specials or electives can be kept because 2-3 hours have been tacked on. So instead of my 5 classes running 45 min each, they would run 90 min. I would have 7.5 hours of instruction and a half hour lunch. Then, one day a week is set aside for planning, grading, and meetings. As long as they don’t get crazy with the meetings we should be fine for planning time.

However, I don’t think they’ll go with the longer days around here. It’s already bonkers traffic-wise with dismissals at 3 pm. 6 would be impassible.

The longer year would be an issue for me health wise. When I revised to switch careers at 30, my mom did not want me to become a teacher. She was very worried about the impact on my health. Turns out that I have really suffered from burning the candle at both ends. I also developed an autoimmune condition that is difficult to manage in a classroom teaching position. Once an administrator told me that she had the same disorder and it wasn’t hard for her to be at school during a flare. I forgot myself and gave her a 5 min rant about specific ways how her job and my job were fundamentally different in regards to the disorder. She had really never considered it. After that, she was much more considerate of the staff with chronic illnesses. Anyway, the summer is when I rest, see my out of town specialist, and get any really gnarly procedures done. The typical year-round school breaks of three weeks here or there won’t work for me. I don’t even start to feel better until late July after about 5 weeks off.[/quote]

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