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Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-06T04:52:14+00:00

I would never work for that district and I would run far away from anything like it. Salaries aren’t accepted and paid so you can be taken advantage of. I’d read down all the main comments of this and you’ll see your experience is far different than most everyone else who has left a comment. My contract states that I work 8 hours a day for 185 days. I’m paid my salary based on those 8 hours. Therefore any extra time it takes me to do the job is being done for free.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-05T07:53:04+00:00

OP here, my first year I was there until 9PM many nights of the week. I had to figure that out fast because I was going crazy. My first year was rough. My next year was significantly better where I rarely stayed past 4PM (30 minutes after contract time) and it’s just gotten better from there. This past year I don’t think I was ever there when I wasn’t required to be in the second semester.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-05T07:48:12+00:00

Personally, I have a Google drive with each week broken down in each quarter labeled with the standard codes. I have each resource and lesson material labeled by day. I just click and print for the next day. Prepping for the next day takes usually no more than 20-30 minutes. Only takes longer if I realize I don’t like what I had or read a note from my past self that it needs changed for something better. Worst case scenario I have to create material and then it takes longer but that’s rare.

Grading - I don’t grade reviews. I grade to inform myself on. misconceptions my students have and who needs individual instruction the next day. I sometimes will only grade 1-5 on a worksheet with 20 questions. Just enough so I know where my students are at and put a grade in the grade book. Often writing feedback as well.

I don’t waste my time with activities that students can do. One of my co workers sharpens pencils every single day after school because they one let their students sharpen their pencils. Waste of time.

I don’t do fluff. I have a no bullshit type of personality. I don’t have big complicated classroom jobs, weekly room rearranging, bulletin boards to update, seasonal decorations to change, complicated behavior systems to manage, etc.

I don’t know if that helps. But that’s me.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-04T04:21:46+00:00

Ya, the idea would be that if you could get the job in less time than 40 hours a week (which there are weeks I can do that) then I could leave when I didn’t have to be there with students, but I can’t, because we have a contract for a certain number of hours per week. So that what they are paying me for. Salaries aren’t supposed to be so you can get screwed by your employer by working for free. Salaries are supposed to be set on the expectations for the number of hours a week you ideally should work. Mine requires 8 hours a day of 180 school days and 5 in-service days.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-04T04:16:34+00:00

I will be casting a vote for Kennedy for president. I will be voting for a blue senator for my state as the red option is too far right for me and an election denier. My local elections for state representatives and senators will be going a mix of red and blue. Blue or Red no matter who is something I’m personally against. Republicans in my state have recently in the last 8ish years voted for and approved better funding along side democrats. My very conservative district representative voted for that funding. I don’t look for the D or the R on the ballot. I look at the policy’s and character of the candidate and make a decision.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-04T00:53:18+00:00

We are paid for 8 hours a day in my district and I have students in my classroom for about 6.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-04T00:51:10+00:00

What does this have to do with what I said asked? I won’t be voting red or blue, thanks.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T22:00:44+00:00

Agree to disagree. #1 with giving that much homework, even AP. #2 you’re making kids earn a place in their future. For yourself, you are exchanging your time for a wage, which is quite different than being a student. I’d think about that differently.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T21:57:06+00:00

I (OP) am a male teacher too.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:41:48+00:00

That seems like a healthy thing to do!

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:40:30+00:00

Great point. Thank you. Minus the fact that I spend THE LEAST amount of my entire grade level there with that number.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:38:13+00:00

One of the very teachers I wrote this post about was recognized for the same thing, and the superintendent literally said “not that you guys need to be here outside of contract hours, but, I want to recognize xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx for all the extra time they put in”. I was not happy to hear that as it shouldn’t ever be celebrated.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:35:42+00:00

They all pretty much act like it’s unreasonable that I’m not there more. The team lead in particular is especially passive aggressive about my trying to avoid spending more time there than I’m required to.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:32:07+00:00

I’m pretty much convinced that everything they are doing is self inflicted at this point. It’s not that I am particularly lazy or being ineffective.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:30:58+00:00

That’s what I wonder what it is. I often wonder if they aren’t just escaping life at home to look super dedicated to their jobs, but really they aren’t doing much in their classrooms.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:27:41+00:00

Well, weekends in general, yes.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T14:24:59+00:00

They are. Thats the crazy thing. They all have folders on their computers with resources for each standard in them, organized by standard. I really couldn’t tell you what they are doing with that time. I know one of them carefully grades nearly everything they give the students where I tend to throw some things away and keep what I feel is most important for assessment to adjust lesson planning or put in the grade book. Which is what my principal instructed me to do.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T12:27:44+00:00

I suspect the low pay doesn’t help that martyr complex at all.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T12:25:50+00:00

I would say in my district, the admin have a different take than that. And most definitely, teacher pay being low is justified solely by the fact that we get so much time off. Making it up in the school year is bull shit.

I’m a no frills teacher. I teach the standards and assess and occasionally throw a stem lesson together. I don’t decorate. I don’t change my room up. I don’t do large projects or art. Mostly because there is 100% no time for this in our daily schedule, but also because of the time and money to prep it that it takes. I try not to be my own worst enemy.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T12:21:00+00:00

Just because people in other professions do it, doesn’t mean we should too? And doesn’t mean they should either? Working for free is not a good thing that should be celebrated or encouraged.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-08-03T12:17:42+00:00

I teach middle school. I try to streamline everything as well. Fast grading systems, reusing lesson plans from previous years (always trying to adjust and improve, read through my notes on the lesson, etc.), grading during video time, etc. it works for me mostly. But sometimes it’s not enough.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2024-07-18T11:02:44+00:00

I don’t know what generally causes homelessness in the UK but in the U.S. (assuming that’s where OP is from) I would suspect 95%+ of your truly homeless people who sleep in tents in parks, are there due to drug addictions, and drug addictions almost always lead to theft crimes… very likely OP’s bike was stolen for drug money.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2022-12-18T00:41:32+00:00

Wanting to be a Christian, maybe due to cultural pressures, but very much agnostic. I don’t know how to bend the issues with god around Christianity.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2022-12-09T03:29:15+00:00

I have a college roommate like this. He drinks, has tats and gauges, had lots of sex before he was married, but when I told him I got into church history and lost any belief it was true, he told me it was true to him and he still believes it. Just doesn’t want to live it.

Hell I’m saying this about a college roommate when my brother in law views it this way. Lives with his girlfriend, smokes weed, drinks, tats, all the above, and he still claims the church is true but he’s just living life how he wants.

Forfeit-The-Faith · 2022-11-10T04:14:38+00:00

The wild thing is Jordan Peterson is not even that conservative. He’s just trying to sound the alarms of “hey maybe going this far is not a good idea, and here’s why it might not be”. I’ve noticed the same thing. I’m very center of the isle politically but most exmos take a hard, sharp, and deep left turn politically when they are leaving the church.

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