Nothing frosts my cookies more than hearing some nitwit going on about all the free time teachers have. I need to avoid reading the comments section in the on-line version of our local newspaper because it seems to be a cesspool of nothing but ignorant whiners who do nothing but aggravate my already frazzled nerves.
My favorite this week was someone who was whining about what a great gig teachers have because "they only work nine months out of the year while everyone else works twelve."
This twit obviously didn't do well in math because the last I looked, getting out the end of May, and starting the first of August, leaves June and July and I can assure you that that is TWO months, not three. And a lot of that is filled with in-service workshops and other things that we do to maintain our licenses along with finding ways to teach the offspring of the above-mentioned whiners. These people who complain about how teachers have summers off would be the same folks who would have a nuclear poop if anyone even suggested year-round school. The irony is amazing. Their kids need summers off, but teachers should not have summers off.
I love this kind of logic.
The other one that gets me is how people insist that our job is so easy because we get off at 2:30 and have all afternoon and evening to sit around and eat bon-bons and get pedicures. I wish.
Here's what this week looked like:
Monday - arrive at 6:15 am, leave at 5:15 pm. It was the first full day so I don't have too much paperwork to go over. Did spend about an hour checking off returned paperwork (the two pounds of "mandatory" paperwork we foist on kids the first day of school) for my homeroom.
Tuesday - arrive at 6:15 am, leave at 5:00 pm. Go to the market, buy groceries, go home and sling hot dogs and tomato soup at hubster for supper (good thing he actually likes this kind of meal). Spend two hours going over returned science lab rules, make parent phone calls, and set up file folders.
Wednesday - arrive at 6:15 am, leave at 4:45 pm. Run more errands (shoe repair, bank, etc.). Sling pizza at hubster for supper. Spend two hours grading health class papers and four classes of science class safety worksheets. Make some parent phone calls. Fall asleep on sofa.
Thursday - arrive at 6:15 am, leave at 4:00 only because I have allergy shot appointment at 4:30. Get home around 5:30, make quick supper for myself, as hubster won't be home until after 7:00, then make parent phone calls for two hours. Heat hubster up some soup and give him a salad for supper.
Friday - arrive at 6:30 am (after breakfast at Waffle House with Mrs. Eagle), and leave at 5:30 pm. Did not take any work home because the School is open tomorrow morning and I'm going in to work then anyway. Why lug it back and forth?
Saturday - arrive at 9:00 am and leave at 2:00 pm. Finish grading all turned in papers, file them away, set up assignments on new grading program, input grades, work on parent emails, get copies ready for the week, work with Mrs. Eagle on health unit, and then go home. Take no work home because I need to have a weekend.
Take a nap.
If I wasn't on a diet I guess I should be eating my bon-bons, eh?
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3 comments:
Preach it, sister!! And I have to somehow find time to feed, bathe, entertain and care for my two little ones!! And forget getting quality time with my Hubby!!
AMEN!!!
When idiots try to give me grief about working 9.5 months out of the year, I inform them that all of the extra - unpaid - hours I work for those 9.5 months would easily fill the 2.5 months I have "off."
Although it still irks me when I hear it, I have long since ceased responding to the fools who assume - incorrectly, of course - that all teachers in all schools in all countries work from 9am to approx. 3.330pm for about nine months of the year and spend the rest of the time lazing about or spending their "unbelievably huge" wages. Most of the time, my working day is only beginning when the last student leaves as I then have to spend the evening either in meetings or up to my arse in paper, or both. These ignorant folk who complain about teachers are usually hopeless parents who gripe about schools because their feckless spawn are constantly clashing with the system due to lack of social skills and manners. And these so-called parents would certainly not last five minutes in a classroom
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