teaching high school...

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It’s the third day of school, and in comes a grumpy student who was working her crap minimum wage lunchmeat slinging job until 2 AM. I wonder aloud if this is legal. Other students indicate that it is, for anyone who is sixteen or older (my research indicates that this is true, not surprising considering that I live in one of the more ridiculous of

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[exbex]

Agreed. I've been thinking about this stuff a lot lately. I'm on salary, as a teacher. But the district is obsessive about the number of hours we work and if we're working enough hours per week. Of course they don't think about the fact that, at least in the first few years of teaching, teachers are working well over 40 hours a week. Some weeks I work more than 40, some I might work fewer, but who cares as long as I'm doing my job and doing it well? The alt high school I work in has some weird hours; four days a week with optional Fridays for students, but we use those Fridays to (attempt to) require students to make up absences (since absenteeism is a major issue with alt high school students). In the past, the staff would rotate on Fridays, but we have a new superintendent and he's requiring that we all work on Fridays. I told my principal that I want us to be done by noon every Friday, as we do not have a duty free lunch and, with mandatory Friday attendance, we'll be working more than 40 hours every week without overtime. He agreed but it's a fight I'm willing to fight. I wonder if I would even care if the district didn't screech at us constantly about making sure we work enough hours and therefore justifying our employment/pay. It's bewildering.