One of the great things about teaching is the long holidays. Being married to a wife who has a proper job makes this very apparent. I now have a week off while she has to work although she may take one of her precious 20 days off. Whenever I hear teachers complaining about the workload I can't help thinking about the 100 days or so of holidays that we all have.
In the past I have tried to work out how may hours a week I work. It is quite frightening if you look at one of the busier term-time weeks - may 80 hours or more! This week in half term I have a few notes to write up from a meeting and a set of reports to write. There are a few other things I will need to do following an upgrade of our Intranet site to Sharepoint 2010 but in total I suspect I will work less than 10 hours this week. I will also manage to fit in a bit of reading, some nice walks and some trips to the gym.
Surely teaching can't be that bad a job!!!
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