Why do you ask? Because I find it difficult to believe -- not saying you didn't, just finding it difficult. When I left teaching, I found just the opposite. The most classroom time I ever spent was 4 hours and 10 minutes per day (5 classes @ 50 minutes each. Grading papers never took, over the course of a school year, more than 1 hour per day on average. There were other things, similar to what you mention and most of which I was paid for, clubs, director of the school's intraural programs, gifted program committee, test and textbook selection committe, but I almost never remained at school after 4pm. Sometimes I would return in the evening or on Saturday to take tickets or keep score at sporting events. But again, I was paid to attend events other had to pay to attend. They were also all voluntary. In ten years of teaching I never had one mandatory activity on a weekend or holiday.
When I got into business, I found myself quickly drawn into 12-18 hour days, seven days a week.
I spent my first 20 working years in the corporate world before leaving to become a teacher. Frankly, I'm glad I did. I figure I work 20+ MORE hours a week but personal satisfaction couldn't be higher. I really enjoy working with the kids and watching them succeed. I also enjoy being the rare republican counter-balance in the land of liberals.
I have a M.S. degree plus work toward a PhD but my salary is NO where near the numbers being stated for Georgia or other high paying states. There are secretaries in this city that make twice what I do and they don't have degrees. Is it fair? No. But I chose my profession and I'm stickin to it. There's more to life than money.
I teach high school (3 preps: 5 classes @ 1.5 hrs each block). I teach technology and spend most all of that time on my feet in the computer lab. I'm the department chair for tech and get a supplement for that, but spend most of my planning time administering the equipment as well as helping the staff out of their tech jams or training them. Nights and weekends - I grade, plan and administer the school's website for no extra pay. I also work for admin in grant writing and other special projects at no extra pay. We all pull together and have a very successful school.
On the other hanb, I spent the first seven years teaching in an inner city school - teaching 6 preps from intro to A.P. CompSci. I worked with teachers who had "given up" because their hands were tied by liberal discipline policies. I saw high administrative turnover because they couldn't control the day to day violence similar to terrorism's hit and run tactics. I was shellshocked by the time I left that school.
Both experiences have formed my attitude today. I regret the bad rap that hard-working teachers garner due to inept liberal and ineffective administrations and the misdeeds of a few. I regret that the ACLU has its teeth in the school system where students have more power than those in their charge. I regret that many have left the system rather than fight to correct it. I regret that illegal immigrant children flood the system and eat away at services for legal students. But, I do not regret becoming a teacher and stay to fight the malaise that has crept into the system.