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Originally Posted by luftys
But some of them only work 5hours 20 mins a day  |
some of them are only 'face to face' teaching, for 5 hours 20 minutes a day.
They also have to do lesson preparation, marking, put up displays, do parents evenings, school plays, discos, supervise after school activities, go on school trips, maintain records, staff meetings......etc
On a typical day, my wife - who is a teacher, gets to school at about 7.45am & leaves about 5.00pm - on parents evening, for example she might not get away until 7.30pm.
I'll concede that the 13 weeks holiday a year is not comparable with other jobs norm of 4 to 5 weeks (The long summer holiday afaik was originally so children could help with the harvest) - but I don't agree they work any less hours.
