Education / Teaching thread

gboudx said

So those 190 are the "required" days, but don't include the "actual" days. From what we've seen from my wife's own experience, and from many other teachers in the district, you can probably easily add 25% to that number. Weekends, training/development/lesson planning over the Summer, 12-14 hour weekdays. It adds up to more than 190 days of actual work here.

If teachers only work 190 days in your school district, then that is amazing and I wish more districts would use it as a model.

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My experience was closer to your wife's experience. There is SO MUCH WORK brought home, so many late nights. Between lesson planning and grading papers, it was already a LOT before the pandemic. Then many teachers were asked to do both virtual and in person lessons, and in some cases simultaneously. It just has become too much.

It's why there is a national shortage.

Despite what well-meaning principal's who job included retention and recruitment say, there is a LOT of burn out right now.


Even before the pandemic I used to tell people teaching was the hardest professional job I have ever had, making the least amount of money I have ever made.

It's only gotten harder.