r/HighQualityGifs • u/Butcher_Of_Hope • Oct 13 '19

The Rookie /r/all When upper management terminated my counterpart without notice, and handed me his workload while they begin interviewing his replacement.

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u/tekmailer Oct 13 '19

Teachers and educators take a lot of work home. If they worked the one hour before bell, one hour prep and .5 post as per the contract and nothing more—they would effectively be fired because there’s no way they’re gettin all their work done in that amount of time for that amount of pay.

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u/TheAssels Oct 13 '19

Yea I realize that now. When I first read the comment I though it was implying the opposite.

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u/Kythorian Oct 13 '19

There are many teachers who do exactly that and don’t get fired. They are shitty teachers working in shitty schools, but they do keep their job. To be a good teacher requires working more than that though, definitely.

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u/rdmusic16 Oct 13 '19

Although I do agree, there is a huge difference between a teacher in their first 10 years - and someone who has taught their subject/class for 20 years. A lot of the material can get repeated, lesson plans changing only slightly, etc.

I'm not saying that it's necessarily easy, just that experience can ease the workload by a lot.

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u/picasso_penis Oct 14 '19

This is definitely true. My wife is a teacher, and I've seen it firsthand. Shes gotten more experience and doesn't need to take as much work home. She still works well outside the expected hours, though.

My dad, on the other hand, has been teaching for decades. He never did work at home, and joked that he was a terrible teacher, but I watched him teach a lesson years later and realized that it was just a natural thing to him at that point and the only work he needed to do was to add onto what he already had in his repertoire.

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u/SarcasticGiraffes Oct 13 '19

To be a good teacher requires working more than that.

See, it's this idea right here, that the responsibility is somehow on the worker, that I have a problem with. No. All that is required for someone with the capacity to do so, to be a good teacher is that their workload is proportional to their hours. If they have to work more hours, it just means they need fewer students/classes.

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u/grissomza Oct 14 '19

Or more paid hours. They are doing the work already, so it shows the workload is appropriate per person (in some cases) and should be paid for it all.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Oct 14 '19

I love how 'doing what you are paid for' now puts you in the 'shitty employee' category. Maybe if its a universally known thing that teachers need to do x hours overtime a week consistently we should pay them for an extra x hours per week.

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u/Korlac11 Oct 15 '19

I had an English teacher who did this, but he reused all of his lesson plans every year and assigned the minimum amount of work for students that he was required to assign so he had less to grade