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Originally Posted by polak
I'm basing my answer from 3 teachers I know. All of whom have zero complaints. One of whom works in the poorest districts in Edmonton.
All of your points mirror pretty much exactly what's happening in the private sector in O & G.
You're not going to hear a peep of sympathy from me for overtime with the guaranteed, hassle free vacation they get.
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You really don't have any idea what you are talking about. There is a massive difference in workload between elementary, middle school and high school and there is no process in place to assure equal workload between teachers in any one school. I'm glad that your friends have it easy somehow, but the majority at the higher levels of education don't.
As for the 'hassle free' vacation. If you actually do the math, between after school programs, coaching, counseling, preparing classes and marking, there is an expectation by school administration that there would be 3 hours of additional work 5 days a week, which more than balances out the 'vacation' during the summer. During this vacation, there is also an expectation that the teacher will prepare a new class plan based on the yearly changes to policy and curriculum.
Because of the changes to the education system in the last 3-4 years the work that a teacher has to do outside of scheduled hours has nearly doubled for some teachers, because (partially) to unbalanced workloads within schools, increasing class sizes and unsustainable policy.
This doesn't take into consideration coded students, disabilities, English as a second language, classes blended through multiple grades, zero fail, multiple rewrites or entitled students and parents. All thrown into each class. And this get worse for new teachers, who are given the hardest classes to teach versus those with seniority, and are basically thrown into the fire.
Every year the teaching profession gets less and less desirable to work in Alberta.
No, I'm not a teacher.