A colleague of mine came up with a pithy but entirely accurate saying this past week: “Secondary education–where education is secondary.” A teacher who long ago left our school used to say that “our job is to babysit the kids until someone more important needs them.”
I’m really starting to not enjoy teaching, and part of the reason is all the non-teaching things I’m expected to do. And these non-teaching tasks are getting greater and greater in number and taking more and more time. Let’s look at just this past week, starting with the students.
You can read about a secondary teacher’s week here.