" Life as a Middle School Teacher: Weekend Work

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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Weekend Work

We have already discussed that a teacher's job never ends when that day ending bell rings. So I thought I would let you know exactly what I did with my weekend. If you don't want to know, skip my blog this time.

Ok, Friday night I had dinner and margaritas with a co-worker. We were at the restaurand for about 2 hours, and I got home at about 6:30pm Friday evening. When I got home, the responsible guy sitting on my shoulder forced me to sit down and work on grading. I decided to stop around midnight when my husband got home from work. So I put in about five and a half hours Monday night.

On Saturday morning I attended my daughter's first class at our new gym. We have had my youngest in gymnastics for almost two years, and she loves it. We were unhappy with the lack of pregression with the first school so we changed gyms. My husband and I had lunch after the class, then we went home. I took a nap (for which I have been feeling incredibly guilty) and started grading papers at around 4:30pm. I worked until midnight again, then stopped when hubby came home from work again.

What, that's 14 hours so far right?

Then Sunday rolls around. My husband and I went to watch my oldest daughter's cheerleading squad get their pictures taken at noon. We also visited Target to clean them out of two-pocket folders with fasteners. We visited the memorial that had been made for two local police officers who recently lost their lives to a "psychotic moron," as my students call the killer. We got home at right about 2:00pm, and after listening to my husband's radio for an hour, he went to work and I sat my butt down on the living room floor again to grade the rest of the papers, average grades for deficiency notices this week, and write lesson plans.

I started working at 3:00 on the nose, and right now it's 11:42. It has taken me about ten minutes to write this far, so I spent another 8 hours on my school work today.

That would be a total of 22 hours I have spend working at home this weekend.

So never believe that a teacher doesn't work enough. I feel like that's all I do.

Oh, I did the dishes, laundry, cleaned the living room and both of the toilets today too.

Time for bed, I'm pretty friggin tired.