At 9:44, thank you and well said! If we are going to add responsibility, yes, increase pay OR increase mental health days. In addition to remediation, lesson planning, grading, SBRT meetings, PLC, grade-level, meetings, parent calls, and making copies (with fixing the copier), we need the time to reset and rest. I love teaching but sometimes I am physically and mentally tired and I just want to take off to REST just to be that teacher that the students need without worrying about my sick days or vacation days. When I worked in healthcare, they expected me to sometimes take days off because of the high stressful environment. This is not the case in education. it is expected for teachers to be there because of the inability to get substitutes or because we think we need to always be there for these students academically.
At 9:44, thank you and well said! If we are going to add responsibility, yes, increase pay OR increase mental health days. In addition to remediation, lesson planning, grading, SBRT meetings, PLC, grade-level, meetings, parent calls, and making copies (with fixing the copier), we need the time to reset and rest. I love teaching but sometimes I am physically and mentally tired and I just want to take off to REST just to be that teacher that the students need without worrying about my sick days or vacation days. When I worked in healthcare, they expected me to sometimes take days off because of the high stressful environment. This is not the case in education. it is expected for teachers to be there because of the inability to get substitutes or because we think we need to always be there for these students academically.