Re: 70 hour work week, is this normal? Yeap!

Posted by Sue2 on 11/13/05

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I don't want to seem resentful, but working 70/80 hours a week for
so little pay is why I sub instead of teach. I tried teaching
full time several years ago. I literally was in the school (I
was a traveling teacher) by 7:30 a.m. at the latest every
morning. 5:00 p.m. was norm for leaving. Have to make copies
sometime! I also put in 2/3 hours every night prepping for the
next day, and the weekends were all lesson planning. Maybe I put
too much time into it, but I was expected to try to push some
knowledge into their little heads, and just because you might have
20 or more hours of study in the subject you are teaching does not
mean you know it all. I admire all of those teachers willing to
put so much into teaching. As they say, "You don't know anything
until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes." Well, I
paraphased that.

I'm glad I have the luxury of choosing to sub instead of full time
teaching. Subbing answers some of the needs I have to be
a "teacher". I can teach (when the kids let me), but I don't
have all of the paperwork and discipline forms to mess with. I
get the fun of teaching.

Sue

Posts on this thread, including this one

• 70 hour work week, is this normal?, 9/20/05, by iteachmath.
• Re: 70 hour work week, is this normal?, 10/29/05, by fed-up ex-teacher.
• Re: 70 hour work week, is this normal?, 11/01/05, by NotPC.
• Re: 70 hour work week, is this normal?, 11/06/05, by paula.
• Re: 70 hour work week, is this normal? Yeap!, 11/13/05, by Sue2.
• Re: NO it's not, 8/26/06, by Joel.