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Home : 2004 : December : 31
By chance, do you work in North Carolina or South Carolina? I am not trying to gloat here, but what you describe is the very reason why I left classroom teaching. For the last five years I watched as
No, it's not right. I can't think of a single profession outside of teaching where people are expected to be on the job continually, as poor teachers are. You are right not to make a stink, since you're new. This issue of teacher break during lunch was brought up district-wide. It was finally stated to administrators, in writing, that the law required that teachers have a break for lunch, although it wasn't legally required that it be duty-free. So technically, even though teachers have a sandwich in one hand and are opening a milk carton with the other, they are having a break. NOT!!! I know that there's one thing you can encourage your administrators to do right now if they don't already. Have several days a month set aside where they and parent volunteers come in and watch the kids in the cafeteria while you have a decent lunch away from kids. They did that in my last school, and it was amazing how refreshed you feel for the afternoon once your sane, adult lunch is over. I am now teaching a special area subject in an elementary school. My days are more sane now and I'd never go back to classroom teaching, but I do appreciate where you're at right now.
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