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Originally Posted by myst
In high school for example, teachers teach 3 blocks a day - about 1hr30min each block for a total of 4hr30min every day. They get one block 'prep time' where they have time to prepare lectures or finish up marking or whatever. The first class starts at 9am, the last class ends at 4pm. They get an hour lunch.One day of the week is usually 'early dismissal' where classes are 3/4ths as long as they normally are. It is absolute nonsense that teachers are overworked. They literally work for 4hr30min a day.
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I don't know about you, but if I am at work, doing things FOR work, I consider it work. Even if they walk in and out of the school at the exact same time that a student does, by no stretch of the imagination could you consider a teachers day to be less than 6-7 hours.
Since I do realize that planning lessons, marking and required extracurricular activities can't all be crammed into that hour and a half spare that these people get, I think 6-7 hours is the bare minimum that you could spend.