So you are suggesting that the 60 hour work-week mentioned might have been an exaggeration. (DUH!!!)
1. MANY BRAND NEW teachers MIGHT work that long, just to get their stuff down.
After teaching the same subject year after year, it OUGHT to be automatic. After five years I could teach my classes in my sleep.
2. If there is a teacher working 60 hours a week, EVERY SINGLE week, then that instructor hasn't a clue as to what his/her subject is. I knew HUNDREDS of teachers over the decades and NOT ONE OF THEM worked 60 hours a week.
Some worked summers but that was USUALLY for the extra cash.
3. The instructor who say that s/he is working 60 hour a week is flat-out lying.
Boo-hoo, wah! THAT was what SOME teachers were good at.
4. I did substitute first grade teaching one year, in a new town. Lol. After a year, EVERY six-year old in town knew me and would say "hello" to me if s/he saw me on the street. Work 60 hours a week? When classes are from 9:00 - 3:00, with lunch, the free prep period and recesses (for the younger grades)?
Please, you are reminding me of the retired teachers I knew who whined CONTINUALLY over the 30+ years of teaching they did. They whined about it all summer, Christmas and Easter vacations, from all over the world.
Might be?
It is a straight up lie!
Teachers start work around 8 and are out at 2 with a lunch and planning period at the minimum. That is less than five hours in the classroom.
Any business major would make sure they got their work done while lunching and planning period and enjoy life without bitching.
But then again they have actual job.