Last week I had four meetings after school. This week I have five meetings after school, two of which are on the same day at the same time. All of them are mandatory. I have a 50-minute prep period every day. All of my lesson plans (ten total, because I teach two subjects) need to be done one week in advance. I have to grade papers, call parents about tardies, update grades in the grade book, write my standards and lessons on the board every single day, write the week's lessons on a weekly calendar for both classes, and have all of my prior handouts and assignments neatly organized in a make-up work crate...and I have a little more than two hours of prep a week in which to do all of that. With my afternoons taken up by meetings, I have no choice but to bring work home in the evenings and on the weekends to do in the time that I should be spending with my husband and my son.
I've been teaching for eight years, and let me tell you, this job is bullshit.
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