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Originally Posted by Slava
Right, I'm not a teacher, but my wife was. She bailed when it was apparent that I was working way less than her and making way more money. So I definitely have sympathy for teachers and their plight. Its just hard for me to see what teachers are doing in elementary in particular because my wife taught higher grades where there was prep, extra-curricular activities and marking. She worked like a slave.
The budgetary stuff drove me crazy when my wife taught as well. We'd spend a significant amount of money on all kinds of things that almost anyone would agree should be provided.
I know that I'm not going to come across as I mean this, but I find it hard to believe that there is a ton of prep-work for elementary school, particularly in those early years (early years of school, not early years of teaching where they have to design everything from scratch and its clearly very time consuming and demanding). I get that there is time and energy spent for some planning and organization, but teachers have time during the day for that in some prep periods, and then realistically, an hour or two a day should make that doable. I do agree that for higher grade levels its much more difficult and onerous, but honestly speaking, how much prep time can there be for having kids do simple addition math worksheets or simple reading/writing exercises?
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Children aged 13-18 are relatively self sufficient and independent.
Looking after a group of thirty 7 year olds 7 hours a day 5 days a week is exhausting, which more or less the same level of prep required. Maybe less, depending on the subject.
Having worked with elementary and highschool, give me highschool ####heads over elementary pisspants all day, every day, any day.