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The issue is they take the sayings too literal so they miss the point of them. Most get it once you break it down but majority of the class is deer in headlights with this topic.
Our grading day is work from home now too because they lengthened the school year but did not raise our pay. Our grade posting process however requires us to get signatures which you can't do from home. I will be scrambling on Monday to get signatures because I chose not to go in. I think giving us a work at home day when we have reports that must be signed is insulting. Just pay me for the days I work thank you.
Our grading day is work from home now too because they lengthened the school year but did not raise our pay. Our grade posting process however requires us to get signatures which you can't do from home. I will be scrambling on Monday to get signatures because I chose not to go in. I think giving us a work at home day when we have reports that must be signed is insulting. Just pay me for the days I work thank you.
You have to get signatures? We just put them in the computer.
I was so ready for our three day weekend. Yesterday (Friday) was Parent/Teacher conferences. I convinced my principal that no one comes to see the music teacher, so she let me take students skiing. Last year we took about 45ish people, this year? 70! Lots of paperwork, but well worth it!
You have to get signatures? We just put them in the computer.
Yup. Plus I have to sign certain hard copy documents. We have to have the principal sign off on our failure letters and have to sign the final grade report for each class.
Yeah. It's depressing. Low morale, they treat us unprofessionally, under pay us, over work us and then wonder why teachers don't want to stay. Unfortunately, the market is still glutted. As long as they can get warm bodies in the classroom nothing will change. If I weren't too old to make a career change I'd be joining the teachers who are leaving. I tried to find something but there's a stigma attached to leaving a career and then trying to restart it.
We're feeling the sub shortage now. I sub my prep about once a week now and that's expected to get worse. What do you know. Vilify teachers and education in general and no one wants to walk in the building. It doesn't help that my district pays less than the districts around us for subs either but they tell us that has nothing to do with it.
I'll be honest, reading that article makes me hopeful that in a few years there will be a real shortage and I'll be able to switch districts and fix my pay situation (I'm still at step 1 after 7 years of teaching with no recognition for my second masters degree). I may actually be able to make a decent living for the last half dozen years I teach.
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I will be scrambling on Monday to get signatures because I chose not to go in. I think giving us a work at home day when we have reports that must be signed is insulting. Just pay me for the days I work thank you.
