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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 130381"><p>I guess I don't see anything so unusual about working 60 hours a week. A lot of people in various professions do it, so should we write about all of them?</p><p></p><p>I worked a job for 5 years where I never worked less than 55 hours a week and as a salaried employee got paid for 40. I also worked those hours 12 months, 52 weeks out of the year. In fact, if I absolutely had to leave at what would have been my scheduled time to leave, I had to remind people all day long. It was a job where I also only had 2 weeks of paid leave a year, including sick days. The same job where in that 5 years I NEVER got to take off 5 days in a row. In every position I've held at every company, I've seen people do this or have done it myself. I just don't see it as anything extraordinary. It's just what people do when the job demands require it.</p><p></p><p>As far as teachers going above and beyond, I have seen people write about it. I've written about it myself. My daughter has had a couple of wonderful teachers and has amazing teachers right now. </p><p></p><p>However, she has also had terrible teachers backed by an even worse principal. They had 2 teachers in the classroom all day with 24 students and they just "didn't have time" to do the little things that would have helped difficult child. Things the Student Services Director said they were required to do. Everyone - all of the professionals - have said that had we been able to get interventions in the SD at that particular stage, when difficult child's issues really began to have a negative impact on her life, then it probably would not have escalated to the point it has. To where difficult child hates school and the thought of going to regular school throws her into flow blown panic attack. Because a lot of us who have difficult child's have experienced this, it makes us a bit jaded about the whole process. When you see the same things time and again, it tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth.</p><p></p><p>Having said all that, I think the case in the second story is being blown way out of proportion. It was a joke. Everyone was laughing, including the student being taped. He wasn't left there taped to his desk. I think someone (boy's parents maybe?) needs to chill out on that. </p><p></p><p>But, I also didn't see anyone on this thread saying this was typical for all teachers. I saw people reacting to that isolated incident that was reported in the news. Which, by the way, is why it was reported in the news. If it happened everyday and was considered the norm, we wouldn't hear of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 130381"] I guess I don't see anything so unusual about working 60 hours a week. A lot of people in various professions do it, so should we write about all of them? I worked a job for 5 years where I never worked less than 55 hours a week and as a salaried employee got paid for 40. I also worked those hours 12 months, 52 weeks out of the year. In fact, if I absolutely had to leave at what would have been my scheduled time to leave, I had to remind people all day long. It was a job where I also only had 2 weeks of paid leave a year, including sick days. The same job where in that 5 years I NEVER got to take off 5 days in a row. In every position I've held at every company, I've seen people do this or have done it myself. I just don't see it as anything extraordinary. It's just what people do when the job demands require it. As far as teachers going above and beyond, I have seen people write about it. I've written about it myself. My daughter has had a couple of wonderful teachers and has amazing teachers right now. However, she has also had terrible teachers backed by an even worse principal. They had 2 teachers in the classroom all day with 24 students and they just "didn't have time" to do the little things that would have helped difficult child. Things the Student Services Director said they were required to do. Everyone - all of the professionals - have said that had we been able to get interventions in the SD at that particular stage, when difficult child's issues really began to have a negative impact on her life, then it probably would not have escalated to the point it has. To where difficult child hates school and the thought of going to regular school throws her into flow blown panic attack. Because a lot of us who have difficult child's have experienced this, it makes us a bit jaded about the whole process. When you see the same things time and again, it tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth. Having said all that, I think the case in the second story is being blown way out of proportion. It was a joke. Everyone was laughing, including the student being taped. He wasn't left there taped to his desk. I think someone (boy's parents maybe?) needs to chill out on that. But, I also didn't see anyone on this thread saying this was typical for all teachers. I saw people reacting to that isolated incident that was reported in the news. Which, by the way, is why it was reported in the news. If it happened everyday and was considered the norm, we wouldn't hear of it. [/QUOTE]
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