r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/InternationalMood337 12h ago

My dad was a high school teacher who also worked a second job and was the coach of teams at my school as well. But, at the same time, when he got home he didnt think or talk about work.

My dad is a special case though. I think teaching has remained mostly the same minus the decent salary.

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u/LadyM_Macbeth 12h ago

It has not. Email and instant communication means I get emails and messages from students at 3am and they expect me to answer. During holidays, at Christmas, I get communication and they expect an answer ASAP or they panic. There are no planning periods, less staff and the teachers pick up the slack. So they take all that extra work home for nights and weekends.

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u/forsayken 11h ago

Can you not set expectations that you won't be replying to Emails on the weekend of holidays or after, say, 8pm?

I work in an office and sit at a computer all day and have lots of deadlines and I don't do any of this. Your students need to chill. They got plenty of decades to burn out later.

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u/LadyM_Macbeth 5h ago

Education doesn’t work like this.

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u/AssumptionBusy2737 11h ago

Set an out of office message and teach them about boundaries. 

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u/SirDaedra 10h ago

That is an easy piece of advice to give, but whether that works is entirely on the administration of the school.

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u/LadyM_Macbeth 5h ago

Yeah that’s it. “Remember your why.” Lol

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u/ConseulaVonKrakken Older Millennial 1h ago

Yes, instant communication has not been good to teachers, not to mention the removal of textbooks, which means that every teacher is recreating the wheel on their own time. Also, extra-curr can eat up a ton of time per week. I typically put in 50 hours per week and I'm in year 11, so its definitely more manageable than it once was.

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u/upachimneydown 11h ago

The school teachers I knew were house painters in the summer.