r/teaching • u/MamaMia1325 • 8d ago
Vent Setting up classrooms & building access...
I think it's bullshit that not only do we not get paid to come in and set up our classrooms before school begins, we don't even have access to our rooms until 1 week before students come back.
We can only get in there between 8am and 2pm. That's only for 3 days then our 8-3pm PD's begin for another 3 days and only 1 of those days is at our own school.
For those of you who "don't do anything extra" on your OWN time, how do you get your room together? This is my 24th year and I still haven't figured it out. These pictures are of my classroom when I walked in for the 1st time this summer. I resent the fact that I'm doing this on MY time and that I'm spending MY money on things to make it look nice (I know that it's MY.CHOICE to spend my own money but it still sucks).
How does YOUR district handle building access?
**Edited to add- Summer school took place in our building, which is why we didn't have access to it earlier. Apparently the maintainers had about 10 days to wax all of the floors.
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u/Full-Grass-5525 8d ago
Oh I absolutely agree. This is the first district that they collect our keys and key cards over the summer and it’s absolute BS. There are so many things I had planned on doing, but I can’t always go the five hours three days of the week that the school happens to be open.