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Originally Posted by Slava
I want to agree with you, but having kids in elementary school is making me jaded perhaps. School runs from 8:25 to 3:15. So that's 6:40 a day. I realise there is a some prep involved, but lets be honest here. None of these teachers has to re-learn much that they're teaching, and the marking is incredibly basic. I say that in direct contrast to say a high school teacher where the marking is both complex and time-consuming, and they have to teach topics that are much more complex than say basic reading or math.
I also recognize that this is a bit of a tangent, but why are we only having instruction for that 6 hours a day and 3 1/2 on Fridays? To me that is a ridiculously short workday. It's really no wonder that teachers were always complaining how far behind the curriculum we were in school.
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I don't know if my wife is in the majority or minority but before going on mat-leave she was working 70 hour weeks as a grade 1/2 teacher. The amount of time she spends/spent researching and planning lessons that would be interesting and engaging for her grade 1/2 was crazy, not to mention the hundreds of dollars that she spends monthly at the dollar store making up for funding shortcomings - i kid you not, its a budgetary item in our household.
Counting only instructional time as working time probably isn't fair for most teachers, although I'm sure some work bell-to-bell. To me, that would be like saying that only your client facing time (meetings) was work. I'm sure there is a lot more that goes into your job then just what your client sees.