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Originally Posted by Ashartus
I don't think she's in the minority - my wife is an elementary teacher and regularly works ~60 hour weeks and it seems pretty common with other teachers I know. The marking and prep actually seems to be a relatively small part of it; a lot of time is spent on things like individualized plans for students, administrative reports, organizing field trips and external programs, dealing with parents, etc. During report card season she's usually still working when I go to bed. Getting 6-7 weeks off in the summer (teachers are back a week or two before students) and 2 weeks at Christmas is nice, though in some respects I'm not sure I'd trade the extra time off for the ability to choose when I take my holidays.
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I totally forgot about IPPs (personalized learning plans for those that learn differently or are 'coded'). Last teaching year year my wife had 32 grade 1/2 kids and had to do 11 IPPs. That means, every topic she was teaching she had to create 12 learning plans/lesson plans....craziness