Reply #21: Depends on your state. Remember I said "lots of states." [View All]

[Bouncy Ball]

And I don't know how to tell you this, but if your wife walked into that school right before school started and got home just after 2 pm (DAMN, what time did she LEAVE SCHOOL?) AND didn't take any work home AND didn't do any work over the breaks AND never attended staff development days or inservice days, well........that could be why she's looking for a teaching job now.

That's the nicest way I know how to put that.

Around here, teachers get to school about 7 am to get ready for their day and start tutoring. School starts at 8:40. School gets out at 3:50. Then after school, there are faculty meetings, department meetings, committee meetings over at the administration building, MORE tutoring (the after school kids), evening school, etc.

Then there's grading papers, lesson planning, calling parents, having parent conferences, etc.

I left home at 6:30 am and didn't get home until well after 5:30 pm almost every single day of the week. That's 11 hours. Then I would work in the evenings most evenings of the week. And all day Sunday.

I added it up and it came to 60-70 hours a week, easily.

So I don't know what the hell your wife's deal was, but she wasn't teaching. Sounds more like babysitting.