Education / Teaching thread

My Wife is a Unicorn Teacher. I am not saying this because she is my Wife. Former students will tell her. Parents will tell her. She loves her kids as much as any other teacher. She loves teaching kids. She is struggling as much as the rest of you but she loves her kids enough to fight through it but barely. The non-teaching work is more than the teaching work. Add in the extra work required during covid and she is struggling even more. Administrators don't seem to take into account the extra time it takes to make sure the kids that can't come to school due to covid has some work in the portal to get to. Of course, 75% of the kids don't or can't do it while at home anyways.

@Outbackjack is for sure at a Unicorn school. Not sure how your teachers have conferences with parents, get all the papers graded, respond to all the red tape, and tons of other non-teaching things that have to be done in those time frames. I actually don't believe it is truly happening that your teachers are getting it all done during work hours. You probably truly have a great environment that your teachers appreciate, but they ain't only working 190 days a year.

In my opinion, based on what I witness, teachers work the same amount of hours as a typical 9 to 5 job without summers off. The weekend, after-school, and work in the summers adds up quickly.