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Yes. I'm with Fairfax County and it is possible to get reimbursed for mileage in a case like that.
We have staff who travel between schools (usually a position such as art, band, occupational therapy, or Advanced Academics). Sometimes they hit a couple of schools in a day and for others they are assigned to a school for certain days.
yes, we had a part time band teacher for a while that did that...she was only in woodwinds, as i recall. so we had our main band teacher full time, and then she came in and worked mostly on more individual and very small group lessons. other days she went to feeder elementary schools.
It would be easier if the state and federal governments let you suspend and expel the problems that exist. But because half the job is classroom management, you have to deal with the degenerate students longer than you should have too and it can make the job harder than it should be.
The subject matters also. Kids generally hate being in math, science and history classes.
Its not the hardest job, but you can't show up and collect a check either.
Oh okay
Yes well I would also think it depends on the school and school district you work for too?
I work alongside some teachers and feel its like
Oh damn this is easy ( you just talk to kids elementary school)
I mean unless im missing something
Im talking about elementary school
For middle school and high school teachers some of them seem all stressed with putting up some of the bs the kids give them
I know its a lot of factors
Most people were telling as long as you have a passion for kids it should be easy
Teaching was my third, highly successful career. Teaching is very difficult for two reasons.
When I was a corporate VP, if I felt bad, cold, that kind of thing, I could either have secretary hold calls or visitors or sometimes, work from home. In teaching, you are "on center stage" every day. Feeling bad is not an option the show must go on.
Secondly, for the most part, you are "managing" people with little or no skin in the game. In business, people generally know the must perform or they will get fired. The better they perform, the better off they will be. In dealing with intellectually immature students, many if not most are not there yet. They view school and education as a burden, and you can't fire them for non performance.
Over time, these two constraints wear on you.
Finally, another reason that teaching is difficult, and maybe it was just my circumstances, is that the administrators and those in central office are not very talented. Little or no leadership training. It shows. Daily!
Didn't say it was easier. All I said was it's a different kind of intelligence. Which is my point in most of these discussions. Not everyone is the same and there are many kids who would be far better off if more schools still had shop classes rather than focus on college prep.
Woodshop still requires math and science skills. Maybe not to the level of engineer.
Woodshop and carpentry has become very specialized over the years. It used to be a qualified carpenter could do a wide array of work. Nowadays, a trained trim carpenter probably wouldn't know how to build a piece of furniture and vice versa.
When I was in Fairfax County, as I recall there was extra money involved in travel and the travel itself was counted as one class period.
So, in our case, the Latin teacher taught 2 classes at our middle school, then 2 classes at the high school, and that would equal a 5 period day plus some travel money for gas.
That's reasonable.
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