Now that this thread is sufficiently derailed there is something that always bugged me about this prep time problem.
If so much time is spent on prep why isn't there pre-planned lessons that you just download from the internet. Why does every teacher try to re-invent the wheel when they start. If I were a school board I would have an archive of go-bys and pre-made plans that were developed over time to hand to every teacher for every subject.
It seems like poor management to have every teacher spend so many hours preparing lesson plans. And just from a quality standpoint you would rather have the best ones be used in the future rather than the average ones. You also want continuous improvement rather than each teacher facing the same problems over and over again.
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