The teachers I talk to don’t work 8 hour days. 12 hour days is typical for those who are conscientious about grading homework and doing lesson plans.
Add in student help hours after school, mandatory supervision of a student activity, parent meetings, staff meeting, mandatory continuing education hours, and the insane individualized lesson plans and targets for each student.
Yes, there are teachers who are sitting pretty after twenty years. lesson plans settled and the salary maxing out, and teachers who put in minimum effort at reading and grading student work.
But I have never talked to a teacher who did 8 hour days 9 months a year. The male teachers do things like pool management and yard work during the summer to make ends meet for their families.
I agree that some teachers work more, some work less depending on how dedicated they are and want to truely help the kids. There are some who don't work very much.
My daughter was a elementary teacher, working in a rough school. She should of been paid hazard pay because of the problems she ran into with some parents.
I have custody of two grandkids who are in elementary school so I am familiar with the situation in at least one school.
I was in the military for 20 years and worked many 12 hour days without extra pay. It's the nature of the jobs. And my pay was less than the STARTING pay was for teachers plus deploying leaving a spouse to raise the kids and take care of the house and cars.
As for those who work extra, it might be because federal and state taxes are too high or they want to go on ship cruise. Or they like to keep busy.
‘The teachers I talk to don’t work 8 hour days.’
a lot of teachers I talk to tell me they work 8 hour days during the summer, so...