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Teachers don't work 1/4 of the year like football players only work 3 hours a week for 16 weeks. There's a lot that has to happen (work) when the students aren
by hdctambien 10y ago
Teachers don't work 1/4 of the year like football players only work 3 hours a week for 16 weeks.
There's a lot that has to happen (work) when the students aren't in school so that teaching can happen.
- cmdrfred 10y agoSo they are required to be at school for 8 hour days year round?
- jschwartzi 10y agoMore like 12-hour days while school is in session.
- cmdrfred 10y agoNot where I went to school, half an hour after the kids left the vast majority of teachers were gone.
- Goronmon 10y agoI mean, a lot of comes down to the individual teachers. The good ones, who care about their students, will spend extra time running student groups (drama clubs, etc) and participate in teacher groups. Add in grading and planning on top of that and you can easily be working 12 hour days, easily. But you can still have plenty of teachers that don't care about making the extra effort.
- ticviking 10y agoBluntly teachers who need to work much more than contract hours are not efficient or planning ahead well.
- squeaky-clean 10y agoTell that to my programming teacher, who also ran the business club twice a week after school and the programming club once a week after school. In fact, it never really struck me until now how nice he was to stay late. The programming club would be about 2 hours long, and he'd stay another 2 hours after because we all wanted to continue coding together, we couldn't be in the computer lab without a teacher.
- jschwartzi 10y agoLet me tell you about how many hours a day I was working when I was student teaching.
- ashark 10y agoThey do hours and hours of planning and grading at home. Often their poor spouses end up helping. Source: am one of said poor spouses.
- CocaKoala 10y agoAre you sure they weren't taking the tests and homework that they received that day home to be graded, after which they can prepare the lesson plan for the next day and write the next homework and test?
- squeaky-clean 10y agoDid they never grade tests or homework? Did they waste time in class with the students to do their grading? Otherwise they were likely working from home.