Hausbautraum20
2021-03-21 17:58:47
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During the first lockdown, the teachers simply had time off and did absolutely nothing. After that, it got minimally better; none of the teachers in my circle actually overworked themselves. Neither the teachers of my children at my school nor the teachers in the neighborhood.
Sorry, but I just had to get that off my chest. Nice to read that there are still more dedicated teachers than what I experience here :)
And how on earth do you know how much work the teachers have???
In the last weeks leading up to the report card deadline, my wife always stayed up until midnight to write the report cards in addition to/alongside teaching. Now she has to write articles for the annual report. In between, she has already had at least 10 training sessions for online teaching, in the evenings in addition to online teaching. Every week there are additional meetings about new rules that apply again for exactly 1-2 weeks.
Hybrid teaching means for my wife that she prepares every lesson both for the children at home and for those present.
I can only speak for us, but my wife works SIGNIFICANTLY more than I do with my 40-hour week.
I can’t remember a single weekend when she wasn’t in the study, and I personally have never done any work on weekends...
My mother worked more until retirement despite 70% part-time than my father with a 40-hour week.
I can’t judge others, but we naturally have many teacher friends and for most of them it’s the same as with us.
Moreover, studies on workload also confirm this, so apparently we are not the only exceptions.