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Originally Posted by Kona I'm a first grade teacher! I love my job! I'm so excited for next Thursday to be here when I'll meet all my new kids. I'm so happy to be in a job where each day is different and new. However, this is so much to do in my job, especially in 1st grade. There is so much to prep, examples to make, lessons to plan, assessments to complete, plus all the other paperwork that is involved in this job... I hate when people say, "Oh you have such an easy job, you work from 9-3 and you have the summers off."  I'm usually at work by 7 and I leave around 5 plus I bring a ton of stuff home. /rant  |
I'm a speech-language pathologist for a public school district in my area. People say the same kinds of things to me about the hours I work (or the hours that they THINK I work). Most people don't realize all of the the additional time outside of the school day that most teachers spend planning. You can't just go into a classroom and "wing it." I do most of my planning and paperwork (evaluation reports, IEPs, daily progress notes, medicaid billing, etc) at home because I see kids all day. It has to get done sometime, right? I start next Thursday, too but I'm not looking forward to leaving my fur babies just yet