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.
No, I was not serious. I sing the same song you are playing here, about teachers seeming to not work much but always thinking they are the hardest-working and lowest-paid in the entire economy. I probably should have been a teacher, would be earning much more than I do now, if not already retired with a generous pension.