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WORKLOAD

by Tired

Nov 11, 2015

Will the workload ever subside so we can go back to teaching. My guess is NO. Mounds of paperwork, data, data, data. Too much data and paperwork and not enough teaching. Has anyone ever wonder who looks over the mounds of paperwork. Just think how much one teacher generates and how in the world could someone look over ALL of this for every teacher. It gets more stupid every year. Keep adding more stuff but never taking anything away. Classes on how to teach, grade use this use that but never any help just more work.

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Wake I am two years from a reduced retirement and am feeling exhausted! I am using every spare minute of my day to complete my never ending to do list. I literally think of what I can accomplish when I have 5 minutes free. I spend my entire day rushing and recently went on blood pressure. My husband is worried about my health. I eat right, exercise when...See More

Nov 11, 2015

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bye bye It's why - after a long and successful career - I am
retiring early ASAP. I see no improvement on the horizon.
It is out of control.

Nov 12, 2015

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North Carolina sucks I can't wait to get out.. 13 and done.. I will probably leave midyear. I didn't want to do that but I have recently had an offer and can't wait until summer. NC has done nothing but make teaching a miserable experience. Low pay, poor benefits, a never ending workload, powerless to suspended disruptive students, powerless to run my class, and tired ...See MoreI can't wait to get out.. 13 and done.. I will probably leave midyear. I didn't want to do that but I have recently had an offer and can't wait until summer. NC has done nothing but make teaching a miserable experience. Low pay, poor benefits, a never ending workload, powerless to suspended disruptive students, powerless to run my class, and tired of the lunatic fringe in Raleigh. A student pushed a teacher last week in was in the classroom the next day. I have been cursed at by parents and students and watched administration do nothing. NC deserves nothing from us.

11/11/15, Out of teaching, and the sun is shining once more wrote: > On 11/11/15, Totallyagree wrote: >> On 11/11/15, Tired wrote: >>> Will the workload ever subside so we can go back to >>> teaching. My guess is NO. Mounds of paperwork, data, >> data, >>> data. Too much data and paperwork and not enough >> teaching. >>> Has anyone ever wonder who looks over the mounds of >>> paperwork. Just think how much one teacher generates and >>> how in the world could someone look over ALL of this for >>> every teacher. It gets more stupid every year. Keep >> adding >>> more stuff but never taking anything away. Classes on how >>> to teach, grade use this use that but never any help just >>> more work. >> >> >> Yes! There have been a few days in the past few weeks where >> I actually have been dizzy from the pace/stress/lack of >> food/water. Just to survive each day I have to make each >> second count. I often literally have to run across the >> campus (our school has multiple buildings) to make it to >> the next task/meeting/class on time. >> >> I have heard of people dying of exhaustion and recently I >> have wondered if it might actually happen to me. >> >> To top it off, sometimes I look around and am surprised >> that there are children all over the school... actual human >> children. What we are being forced to do is not helping >> them at all. It is hurting them. You can't have a >> coherent arc of learning because it is so fragmented by >> directives. > > > The workload won't end because you are no longer true > teachers, but cogs in a corporate machine. Collect your data > and do as you are told, serfs!! > > As the economy is now much improved over the last few years, > unless you are a few years out from retirement, QUIT. You > owe it to yourselves and your families. Leave. Life is > short!!!

Nov 13, 2015

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